"Billy" <UseNewz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I recently bought a Dell XPS One with a Broadcom 802.11n Network card
> and wireless is slow and unusable.
>
> My home network consists of a Motorola Surfboard cable modem via
> Comcast broadband service connected to a Linksys Wireless-N WRT150N
> router (configured w/ no WEP or Encryption - it's open) via CAT5E
> cable. The LAN has two WiFi-G enabled laptops and w/ Desktop all w/
> WinXP Pro working efficiently and flawlessly for over a year. This
> Dell XPS One is a new machine introduced.
>
> I connect the Dell XPS One w/ the Broadcom 802.11n Network card and
> Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and the issue begins. BTW, the issues
> existed before applying the Vista SP1. For example, downloading a 3mb
> file takes over 3 to 5 minutes on this machine via WiFi. In contrast,
> on one of the other home LAN machines w/ XP and differant hardware,
> this takes less than 30 seconds. Also, I have skipping in YouTube
> videos and file copys from machine to machine in the LAN taking
> forever.
>
> I checked the Wireless card properties on the offending machine and
> all settings look correct - im registering at 130 Mbps speed
> consistently according to the WiFi status. I looked at the wireless
> card driver and it appears to be the latest, however when I checked
> Dell's website it looks like their may be a newer one that arrived
> just this month. However, when I download and go to update the driver
> in device manager it says that I have the latest (the existing driver)
> and does not install the newer one.
>
> One other test I did was to plug in a cat6 ethernet cable from the
> router to the back of the machine. It appears that my WRT150N router
> only has 100/Full from the LAN ports so I received a 100Mbps
> connection vi auto-negotiate setting. This is slower than the 10Mbps
> that the WiFi card status was reporting, btw. So, I did a download
> from the same site and bam, slower than XP machine, but way faster
> than the troubled WiFi connection - maybe 45 seconds to a minutes and
> it was done.
>
> Do you think this is a bad WiFi card in the machine, driver issue,
> Windows Vista compatability, or any of the above?

Billy-- Is this the Broadcom BC4322?
Jim