> "Billy" <UseNewz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:8289601c-3dbd-456d-afef-71263a20cab5@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>> 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?

user error and a salesdroids lies......

From Dell
<http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_one?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19>
Dell-branded and internally installed Wi-Fi: (802.11 a/b/g/n Draft 2.0)
standard

notice it is *DRAFT*

From linksys
<http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout &cid=1175233984378&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVis itorWrapper&lid=8437836001B01>
The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless
networking technology: Wireless-N (draft 802.11n)

Notice it is also *DRAFT*

however, drafts do not always talk to each other at full speed, specially
when they are from different manufacturers....

no way in H that wireless will ever ever ever be faster than wired, if you
buy into the numbers the sales people/liars stick in their literature,
claiming an impossible number, that you beleive cause you see some silly
lying number on a driver/on the screen,
and think it must really be that fast cuz it says so, I got a bridge I'll
sell you cheap.... Trust me, it's in writing!

at any rate, set everything to b/g only, it won't waste a lot of time trying
to negotiate a non existant/incompatible n....