You may have read my earlier post about my upgrade to wireless-N. The upgrade was easy. The initial tests were great. Longer testing … grrr …
For the rest of the week after I installed I basically just used the router with my Wireless-G work laptop. Finally, last weekend, I did some real testing with my wireless-N card in my Dell Inspiron XPS M1710. And I was not pleased.
Here’s what happened: whenever I tried to access a folder on my wife’s laptop (also connected by a wireless-N card), the folder opened up incredibly slowly. It would take minutes to open. Not only that, if I watched the connection speed via the system tray icon for the wireless connection, I would see it drop. From 130 -> 117 -> say 52 -> as low as 2! Incredible!
No matter what I tried, the behavior was the same. So, I changed back to G, to see … and I had absolutely no issues.
I also noticed the connection speed values change when I was doing nothing. FIgured … nope, what I read was true. Draft-N still is too shaky.
So, the one good thing was … I bought it from Amazon. I could return it, shipping paid for by Amazon, because I couldn’t get it to work with my setup.
I also did more research, and decided to try some other routers. I’ll detail my results later, as time passes. For now, back to G.
