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Windows Wireless Config Utility or Dell Utility?

post #1 of 13
10/20/05 at 10:13pm
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I downloaded the most recent driver for my dell wireless 1350 card (from this board as a matter of fact). It reinstalled the dell wireless utility and requires starting the wireless zero service to let windows manage it. It seems to me that it's slower to find wireless networks and not as good as grabbing them. But that's my subjective opinion. Anyone with an objective opinion on which wireless utility works better?

thanks, Erin C-H
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post #2 of 13
10/20/05 at 10:35pm
I have never had any luck using the manufacturer's utility and never had a problem with windows
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post #3 of 13
10/20/05 at 10:35pm
you can better tweak stuff with the dell wifi dell stuff i think. doesnt really matter to me.

but you do have to have the intel proset install, even if you just use windows to to the wifi. which sucks because the proset still runs.

i wish you could just install the driver, and work with windows....but im not really concerned with it at this time.
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post #4 of 13
10/21/05 at 5:29am
I got the Intel 2200bg, and for what it's worth I never use the windows utility. Sometimes it just doesn't find anything. The Intel ProSet Wireless works well instead
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post #5 of 13
10/21/05 at 12:36pm
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Originally Posted by erinch
I downloaded the most recent driver for my dell wireless 1350 card (from this board as a matter of fact). It reinstalled the dell wireless utility and requires starting the wireless zero service to let windows manage it. It seems to me that it's slower to find wireless networks and not as good as grabbing them. But that's my subjective opinion. Anyone with an objective opinion on which wireless utility works better?

thanks, Erin C-H



http://images.lunarpages.com/10953148.cab
Confirm you are running the latest Broadcom driver linked above.
Also, confirm you have tweaked all the advanced properties of your WLAN for best performance.

BTW: The wireless helper is a obsolete legacy application only required for notebooks running Windows 2000 or earlier. XP and later has better native support for wireless networking which causes the helper apps to become redundant.


Using the above driver with the latest XP patches will allow enable support up to WPA2.
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post #6 of 13
10/21/05 at 3:27pm
LOL on the ssid
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post #7 of 13
10/21/05 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by Para Noir
I got the Intel 2200bg, and for what it's worth I never use the windows utility. Sometimes it just doesn't find anything. The Intel ProSet Wireless works well instead
Same here. Intel works waaaaay better than Dell and XP's wireless doo hickey's.

SatanOscillateMyMetallicSonatas.........holy crap man
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post #8 of 13
10/23/05 at 11:55pm
For those that just want to use the Windows app, I've installed just the proset drivers and use the Windows app.

If I remember correctly, PROSet installs the whole package, but you can go into the dir and then uninstall the PROSet app and the drivers stay intact. That may not be the exact way I did it, but Im just running the drivers and no PROSet utility.
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post #9 of 13
10/24/05 at 3:38pm
I've deleted the Intel's ProSet. I was having issues previously with no connection upon resuming from standby/hibernation. Also, ProSet was conflicting with my school's (utterly stupid) software to connect to their wireless. I prefer Windows managing the wireless - it hasn't caused me any issues.
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post #10 of 13
10/24/05 at 6:14pm
since my first post in this thread, i decided to "modify" the proset and saw the option of removing everything but the driver files. i have since done so, and find XPs WIfi config to be more than adequate.

gets same signal too.
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post #11 of 13
10/26/05 at 6:09am
the standby/hybernation problem was known, and it has been solved with the latest 2200BG driver. For what I know, when you decide to use the windows utility, the intel software doesn't matter anymore, if you keep it on your hard drive as if you remove it. So, better leave it there, it can always be useful.
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post #12 of 13
10/26/05 at 10:50am
The dell utility is one of the best I've seen but still let windows do the managment (it works) and have the dell utility in the system tray report the signal strength.

To a hacker, a network with the name SatanOscillateMyMetallicSonatas is a good candidate to invest some time in cracking it.
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post #13 of 13
10/26/05 at 10:57am
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Originally Posted by mich43L
The dell utility is one of the best I've seen but still let windows do the managment (it works) and have the dell utility in the system tray report the signal strength.

To a hacker, a network with the name SatanOscillateMyMetallicSonatas is a good candidate to invest some time in cracking it.
Crack WPA2!? Good luck with that honeypot!
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