mini-PCIe wlan n cards...

well, i searched a few pages on the forum but failed to see anything related to laptop wireless n cards. basically, i'd like to know which one is the best on lag/stability/speed. of course, i'd want it internal, as the thread says. i currently have a 4965agn from intel. while not a bad card, it doesn't fully work with my dlink dir-655 router. i know it doesn't support the 40Mhz band so it's stuck at 130 Mbps for the top speed. and lag is rather horrible, my previous g card worked a lot better.

 

as no one answered my question and i didn't want to create a new thread just for that, I'll merely bump this one.

 

there's a Networking and Wireless subforum....

 

I don't know about the lag thing, but I can point out that both 4965AGN and DIR-655 support 40MHz wide channel or channel bonding.

The reason why your Intel WiFi Link 4965AGN stuck at 130Mbps connected to D-Link DIR-655 is because their 40MHz capabilities are at different frequency bands. 4965AGN could only do 40MHz at 5GHz band, while your DIR-655 is a single 2.4GHz band wireless router. Although DIR-655 is configured to operate 40MHz channel, still it cannot be used by 4965AGN as this card can only operate standard 20MHz channel at 2.4GHz band. This is why you only get 130MBps max.

So, if you want to get connection above 130Mbps, either you change your wireless router to dual band wireless router or you change the mini PCIe 4965AGN card inside your laptop to the one that could operate 40MHz channel at 2.4GHz band such as Intel WiFi Link 5100, 5300 or others.

 

thanks for redirecting me to the wireless sub forum. and about the reason why my card did not work at 300mbps, i already knew that much. thanks for explaining it though, effort appreciated.