VIVA! Atheros WIFI. DOWN The With Intel 2915 Hunk of Junk - Page 20

It does work at 108Mbps for me with a NetGear RangeMax WPN824 router. Mine came to $60 or so with shipping...Well worth it. Plus, the drivers just seem better than Intel. Not so much extra crap getting loaded...

John

1) Yes, if you get the XS version of the card it will run at 108mbps on a 9300 if your router supports it, and apparently it does.

2) If you order through the groupbuy in a thread in this forum you can get it for $55 shipped. Follow the instructions in that thread to get that price.

Sweet, thanks!

Ugh. Read through the first 18 pages of this, fell asleep, and now I've finished.
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Right. My own experience with wireless:

The first card I have to elaborate on is the Netgear WG511T, which nearly has nothing to do with this except that:
It is an atheros card (not sure which generation). It works perfectly with airopeek and the windows version of airodump with the appropriate drivers. The drivers I had for it... in windows device manager I couldn't find a way to spoof the mac address. However, using SMAC, I was able to successfully spoof the mac address by changing it, setting the card into adhoc mode, spoofing it again, and setting it back into AP mode. I got drops, but that was in a condominium and floors away. Netstumbler worked quite well with this card.

The things I have mentioned above are abilities my Intel 2200 card does not have, even when I had the original dell software image on this machine.

I have most of the symptoms. Sometimes the card just wouldn't connect with a very decent signal. Connections would drop during extended periods of... Internet. Rather, bittorrent would drop at least once every ten minutes. Games would time me out, lag up, then lag down, but I was already dead =\...
And sometimes, a page would just fudge itself in the middle of loading. Notebook forums for instance .

Now... this could be a problem of interference and I'd have to know if everybody out there with the Intel 2915 HoJ, tried using the A-band AND noted that there were no nearby A-band phones. Not to say I'm defending this. By all means, Atheros probably does much better in noisy enviorments than Intel.

So I'm considering buying an Atheros card now ;|. Does the 5005gs work with other drivers and utilities? I know I've seen other control utitilites for the Atheros card. Airopeek driver? I have no doubt that it'll work in said needs soon enough.
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And by the way. Linux does support the Intel card, even for promiscuous mode. At least it looks like it does... Just make sure you get the right version as it seems the kernel can't take a 2100 driver and a 2200 driver. Oh yes, and you have to go into windows, turn the card on, reboot into linux. What a pain. Or at least I'm too lame in linux to know how to turn on the radio =D... (somebody help me =( ).
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Strange, newegg used to list the type of antenna connector on the 2200 card. Now I can't find it. I think it's a hirose connector, so you'll want to make sure that it's the same on your newer card whatever it may be. Or you could be creative and drill a hole through that panel and have a wire leading out to a truly external antenna. Wow, a wire leading to a wireless.

Thinking about group buying, but all of my food funds right now are going to a gamebridge instead ;P.
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Boo Boo. A correctly installed DSL setup reduces latency by a lot instead of having it fizzle on you when it's peak hours for a cable setup. The only time I've ever seen trouble with DSL (sbcYahoo in Texas) is when a user used all of the filters on the modem instead of where they really went.
Even so, the type of service you use to connect to the Internet is irrelevant to wireless performance.
One more thing: Cable modems are much more standardized than DSL ones, so you've got a rarity if your cable modem is incompatible with your cable service.
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Sorry, but that's 26 pages worth of response =|...

I'm downloading the latest Intel driver and utility for my wife's 2200BG. 80MB.

I wish I could ask the product manager at Intel who spec'd the download at 80MB why they thought that was a reasonable size. Because as they start to answer, I'd just lunge at them and pull a vein out of their neck.

-Doc

LOL Doc! How true this is. Why cant they simply provide the damned 30k driver file seperately from the rest of the crap?

Mwave has the GN-WIAG02 (Atheros 5005G) for sale @ a LOW $21, check it out

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....iteria=BA22202

I picked up the GigaByte card regdab mentioned above and since then it's been smooth sailing. The Intel 2915 card was problematic from day one. After trying different drivers, routers and settings on both I gave up. I'd definitely recommend it if you're having issues as well.

where do i get in on the group buy. I HATE MY 2200BG and i want this atheros card SO bad.

Point me a link, and ill pay.

Honestly, I haven't had a single case of dropped signal since I installed my 2915. I don't have a gigabit router, so the Atheros would be a paperweight to me.

Concensus says that you are a lucky person with the rest!

most of us weren't that lucky

BUT I did get my 108mbs Atheros and have better range than the 2915 so I am happy with my upgrade.

The original dell wireless that came with the 9300 (1450? something) was horrible about dropping signal.

I'll eventually upgrade to gigabit, but I need a new video card first.

2 things..

1. As far back as I remember the 9300 came with either the Intel 2200 or the 2915 wireless cards. I had 1 of each in my 9300 and 700m and they both dropped connections on Linksys, Cisco and D-Link wireless routers.

2. You'll be waiting a LONG time! There is no gigabit wireless at this time. You've got 11, 54 or 108Mbps wireless. These Atheros cards are 108Mbps while the intel cards are 54Mbps.

They're only 108Mbps if everything on your wireless network is Super-G.

Add a single device that's plain old 11g and you're bottlenecked to 54Mbps.

...and 108 Mbps only happens when there is a serious draw or need on my 5004 card.
It normally operates @ 54 Mbps unless I am downloading several things at once.

What is the benefit getting the 5006xs over the Gigabyte based 5005 ? Just wondering because the 5006 is 60 versus the 5005 at 21. Don't really need 108MB just need the atheros chip for mac and linux compatability.

As said numerous times before, the only advantage is you have 802.11a capability. Seeing as 11a was about as widely adopted as a kid with no head, you're not missing much.

Go with the 21 dollar 5005, it'll take the sting out of having to eventually buy a much more expensive 802.11g/n mini-PCI card down the road.

Hype

All in all this card is a bunch of hype. Lets look at some of the pros and cons that I have encountered:

Pros:

You connect faster .

Cons:

The utility is garbage
Range is not better then my Intell 2200BG (I've spent countless hours testing this in various locations by swapping cards numerous times)
I spent $60 dollars for nothing.

Please don't waste your money on this card, learn from my mistake.