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Any way to force wireless to connect to G over B?

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I have a Dell Precision M4400 with the 1510 wireless card. I have a question regarding my wifi card. My school's wifi only shows up as one access point in the connection manager, but if I scan for wireless signals it shows several channels. The problem I am having is it seems quite random, depending on the signal strength I am guessing, my laptop connects to one of the B channels instead of the G ones.

If I go to the Driver Properties in the Device Manager, I can force it to choose A first, but not G instead B. Does anyone know a workaround to make it choose G first instead of B/G? Also, I hate installing any Dell software that is not necessary, specially the Dell Wifi connection software since it's 300+ MB install, but does anyone who does use it know if it would allow me to specify G over B?

Running Vista64 with latest drivers.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Force wireless to use the highest connection is not always a good idea. Most of the time it will not stay unless the router and your wireless device sync well with each other.

Search the net if you have the latest driver for your device, or get another card altogether.

cheers ...
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Mind you if the AP is 802.11b only that's all you're going to get and no amount of monkeying with the settings is going to change that.

Also, if you're on the outter fringes of the AP's effective range your link speed will be reduced. That's just the way Wi-Fi works.
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