Built in Wireless Card

Discussion in 'Acer Aspire One' started by chid, Sep 1, 2010.

  1. chid

    chid

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    I'm getting really bad speeds via the built in wireless card
    I tried a usb wireless card, (RT73/RT2300 from RALINK)
    and I've gotten significantly higher speeds.
    from like 30KB/s max to 500~KB/s max

    anyone else have these problems? the internal wireless card doesn't really seem strong enough
     
    chid, Sep 1, 2010
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    gadzooks64

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    I replaced my internal card with an Intel 6300 and noticed significant improvement in speed.

    They run about $35 and are really easy to replace. Totally worth it.

    Or you can get any number of wireless N usb dongles that will work as well for about $15.
     
    gadzooks64, Sep 1, 2010
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    ah awesome, I think I can't find somewhere to buy things like the 6300, I might buy a wireless dongle, but I can't be sure which ones offer a good performance/battery drain tradeoff, I'm thinking something really cheap.

    Is there any reason to get a 300M Network Adapter over a 150M adapter?:D
    Also, cheap vs expensive, :$ so many choices
     
    chid, Sep 2, 2010
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