"Billy" <UseNewz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On May 6, 2:18 pm, "jpsga" <jp...@comcast.net> wrote:
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> >I recently bought a Dell XPS One with a Broadcom 802.11n Network card
> > and wireless is slow and unusable.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Do you think this is a bad WiFi card in the machine, driver issue,
> > Windows Vista compatability, or any of the above?
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> Billy-- Is this the Broadcom BC4322?
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Jim - without being in front of the machine (im at work) I want to say
"yes" as I recall that driver directory as reference to the drivers
installed. The date I think was 9/2007 or maybe even earlier as driver
stamp. I will confirm all this tonight after 9pm EST from home an post
follow-up. What I was trying to do was to update the driver with the
BCM4321 which btw is a lesser number than you specify but is Dell
recommended on their site under my system and has a release date of
4/11/08 (very recent).

Do you know of an issue with the BC4322 driver and/or hardware? That
would help point me in the direction that I need to go....thanks!

Billy-- I *Do not* know of any issue with the BC 4322. I wanted to look at
the manual to see if you can drop back to G speeds. As it occures to me that
the router must be capable of N speeds if it wants to talk to you new card
at that speed.
Jim