Posts by nrmsmith

Thanks Pieter I'll have a look at those. Do you know what chip these products use? I can't find this info for the DIR-855 - I read that Atheros or Intel give the best compatibility with the Intel 4965ABN Has anyone got the DIR-855?...

Quote: Originally Posted by pieter i4965 is only 11n in A band, G band maxes out @ 130Mbps, just remember that. Can you recommend a good router that would do 11n in A-Band to get best throughput? Ideally an...

Hi Dell|Dude & Thanks for the recommendation /N/

If I want to upgrade my Dell xps m1710 wireless LAN from the 802.11g std card it shipped with to a draft-N 802.11n solution; what should I buy? I have seen Intel 4965AGN for sale and also Dell sell a Wireless 1505 PCI Express but it's...

Does that mean Dell don't do an official upgrade slimline Blu-ray drive kit for the xps m1710? NigelS

Is it possible to buy a blu-ray drive upgrade kit for the Dell xps m1710? Thanks NigelS

Has anyone tried upgrading their Dell xps M1710 with 800MHz RAM chips (PC6400) ? Is there any noticeable / significant increase in performance? I was thinking of upping my 2GB 667MHz RAM std memory to 4GB and was wondering whether...

NB This is the WInXP driver; did they also add the Stereo Mix feature to their Vista driver for the Sigmatel 92xx ?? NigelS

Geep Looks to me (I downloaded it) as if it is designed for WinXP and not Vista. NigelS

Quote: Originally Posted by Geep The real reason I suspect is that Dell does not want to deal with most users confusion, problems and support questions that will arise from the additional features. Perhaps I...