Wireless Help Please

I have an XPS 1201 with the Dell/Broadcom N wireless adapter. Everything was great for week, then I lost the connection to the router. I have replaced the router with a G version and done everything I can and the dell will see a network but not connect.

I have several other laptops in the house connected to the network, additionally I put a Intel 3945 abg card into the 1210 and it worked fine.

When I had the N adapter working with the N router - I would consistently get a 200mbps + connection.

I am really having a hard time figuring this out. Can anyone help me?

 

Are you saying that you're trying to connect a wireless N adapter to a wireless G router ? A N will not work with ABG.

 

Correct a wireless N card in my dell trying to connect to a pre n router - or any router for that matter.

 

66% wrong. Draft N is backwards compatible with 802.11b&g.

Jeme, have you tried uninstalling then reinstalling the Draft N card's driver?

 

Belkin is not known to be reliable. It's possiable your card has failed. Make sure you have the latest drives installed in both router and nb.

 

Yes - I have reinstalled the driver - but just to make sure I did that right could you walk me through it? Belkin router is fine - other laptops connected to it - works great - better coverage than any linksys reouter I have ever had.

FYI - I did find some broadcom drivers that made the card aprtially work.

My alternative is to go backwards to an intel 3945 a/b/g card that I have - thanks in advance for the help.

 

The prior driver was native in vista so I am not sure how to remove and re install that, additionally I did remove the card briefly and put in the intel card, then put the pre n back in. This entire thing is frustrating because when it worked it was very fast!

 

Wouldn't exactly call it backwards, Jeme. What's backwards from not working at all?

 

Well - I got the dell N card working with a broadcom driver but it would still not see my N router - it would see my older router. I installed the 3945 card and it works fine - but I am still disappointed that I cannot get the N service that I had before.

 

This is to be expected till the 11n std is ratified.

Right now they are doing any thing they want so compatibility is only to their own products and sometimes not.

 

Understood, but the N card worked great with a Linksys WRT300N and I was getting 270Mbps throughput - and then something changed and it stopped working and I cannot for the life of me figure out what changed. I did not install any software or updates - I just log into my routers web page one day and it just stopped working (the card seeeing the router)...

 

66% wrong. Draft N is backwards compatible with 802.11b&g.

You're correct my friend WackyT