anyone with an "intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN" think it is slow?

i have an intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN, and i was wondering if anyone else with the same wireless card thinks it is slow compared to other wireless cards on the market. When i bought it, i assumed it was an excellent card (based on it having wireless N capability) but it seems that my friend with an older model (i dont remember exactally what card it is, but he has a Dell Inspiron 6400/e1505) has faster connections than i do.

for example, we are playing counterstrike source beside each other on the same server and his ping is ~20 lower than mine every time we play.

Is there anything we can do to make this card quicker? I do have the latest driver from intel's site

edit: just found this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=229280&page=2

sort of explains why we can only get 130kpbs. However, i doubt that should have any effect on my ping, as counterstrike isnt that hard on the networking (as far as i remember)

 

I've noticed that in lecture rooms other people with notebooks have better connectivity and I have the same card.

 

it will also depends on what computer you have. and how does that computer wireless antenna is designed/placed.

 

Remember 11n is still in draft and there are still problems to work out. One is in mixed mode 11g/n and whether your using 20-40 modulation band width. Force it to 11g only and see if it improves.

 

any idea on how to do this? im not much of a network person

 

Under your advanced properties for your wireless port should be the settings. You should also change the setting on your router if it have problems to. I think most of the problems is the router since it's trying to do both. You may try to force the 11n to 5ghz only on 40 hz bandwidth modulation. the 5ghs is where the best speeds should happen. It does not have to deal with the 2.4ghz 11g/b hardware, it's suppose to play nice with existing networks.

 

alright, i forced it to use g only since i cant force it to use n only (my brother has an xbox 360 and it requires g as far as im aware)

edit: forcing g only didnt help at all, any other ideas?

 

Do a reset to factory on the router, and nb. Do the initial set up again, using WPA(2) Personal AES. What brand are you using? if Belkin it's the source of all the problems. Belkin's are real flaky, besides being junk. See about backing up to the original drivers. After each driver install restart to clean out any cache. Then do a manual update on the wireless card. Try each release (do not uninstall the previous, one may work better with your setup over another. I have a desktop pc that has flaky gige driver. The original will give me 65Mbps speed with all other knocking it down to 25-30.

Decide on which manager you want to use. MS ZC uses less resources than Intel's. Only load 1.

 

i cant change router settings (schools router) so ill try to find some older drivers from intel for my wireless card (seems their download site is down right now though, so ill try in a bit)