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January 7, 2009 at 8:23 pm #169204kmart9419Member
Crashed again. Bummer. Installing brand new drivers from intel. I hope that works. If not, next step, go from wpa2 aes to wpa aes and hope that works.
January 11, 2009 at 6:34 pm #169186gradyMemberMy 5300 works okay but I frequently have to renew the IP for the adaptor. This is most often the case when I am accessing 3G though my cell phone. Basically, I am wireless G to the phone, then using the phone as a router to web. With a strong 3G signal, I get 3Mb/s down and around 300Kb/s up.
Are most of you using the Intel Proset software or Windows Zero Configuration to manage the adapter?
I have upgraded to XP Pro.
Don
January 15, 2009 at 4:55 am #169210martinMemberI installed my Intel 5300 card and it is working great, connecting at 5Ghz 802.11n (draft) to my Apple Airport Xtreme with 300 Mbps, I haven’t tested actual throughput but the speed is much snappier on even browsing the internet. Watching High Def (720p h.264) over wireless is flawless. 🙂
January 20, 2009 at 9:25 pm #169213s2tiggerMemberThanks to this thread, have now installed the 5300 card (with extra ariel) ….purchased a new modem/router combo (netgear DGN2000) and am getting 270mbps !! was getting 54mbps with old non wireless n access point.
I have also installed vista ultimate and install 2gb ram upgrade….
Thanks to everyone….
Darren
January 22, 2009 at 9:54 pm #169205kmart9419MemberI’m happy to report that with the new Intel drivers, I have not had a router crash since installation a week or 2 ago. Averaging 135 to 180 on the new drivers. Seems a bit slower than the previous driver, but at least its stable.
January 24, 2009 at 9:04 am #169116dinoMemberdoes anyone know what the technical differeneces in power consumption between teh 5300 and atheros card is? And if you restrict it to b/g mode or reduce the antenna power does this translate into an even greater power savings?
January 24, 2009 at 3:06 pm #169211martinMemberI have been trying to find that out for a long time, Dino, and no one seems to know! I am very handy with The Google, and that hasn’t helped either. 🙁
January 24, 2009 at 9:33 pm #169206kmart9419MemberOn b/g networks, the 5300 uses 32mwh. The N networks, the 5300 uses only 16mwh. So, I’m assuming N network actually uses less power. You can get this information off intel’s proset software.
January 25, 2009 at 12:35 pm #169187MrBeardyMemberFor people looking to buy one of these cards, there is an ebay seller called notebookelite who is selling them for $25 with free postage, he is based in Hong Kong but I got mine within a week. It works as expected.
Watch out tho, he has thinkpad specific ones and generic ones and i clicked on a thinkpad one without realising, and he was good enough to exchange it without hassle, or charging me for the extra postage!
January 27, 2009 at 4:44 am #169108NcssryEvlMemberThe Thinkpad one should have been fine. Same for HP. Lenovo and HP both use whitelists for their wireless cards. A generic will throw an error on bootup in an HP or Lenovo unless you use a hacked BIOS to ignore the error.
The Samsung shouldn’t have any issues thanks to its not flagging anything (other than the 4965, I guess)
January 27, 2009 at 4:51 am #169073AnonymousGuestI disagree with the NC10 working with the HP and Lenovo specific ones.
I bought one that said HP and Lenovo ONLY (Intel 5300) and popped it in no problem. Installed into Vista no problem with the latest intel drivers. Machine identifies it, but the device will not start. I’ve got an ES one that supposedly works for samsung on the way. Hopefully that will work.
January 27, 2009 at 8:38 am #169223simoncMemberJust wanted to say thanks to the OP – after reading this thread I went ahead and got the extra aerial from oxfordtec and the 5300 from kikatek (via amazon) and installed them all without a problem last night.
My NC10 is actually running Ubuntu 8.10 at the moment, and although the Intel card was instantly recognised and appeared to run fine (it automatically connected to my network that had been set up with the original atheros chipset), for some reason it doesn’t appear to actually connect at n speed to my D-Link DIR655 and reports only 54mbps. Not sure if this is an issue with the driver or a limitation of Ubuntu itself – there seems to be remarkably little information on Wireless n in Ubuntu that I can find! Though when I do a listing of the wireless channels it has available it does list a whole raft of 5GHz ones which I thought were only in Wireless n – so not too sure!
I’ll probably be going to a dual-boot configuration anyway in the near future (either XP/Ubuntu or Win7beta/Ubuntu) so as long as I can get n speed from one of them I’m not too fussed if Ubuntu isn’t quite getting the most from the card – I’m hoping the Intel will be less problematic than the Atheros in Ubuntu in any case.
January 28, 2009 at 2:07 am #169207kmart9419Member[quote1233108376=simonc]
My NC10 is actually running Ubuntu 8.10 at the moment, and although the Intel card was instantly recognised and appeared to run fine (it automatically connected to my network that had been set up with the original atheros chipset), for some reason it doesn’t appear to actually connect at n speed to my D-Link DIR655 and reports only 54mbps. Not sure if this is an issue with the driver or a limitation of Ubuntu itself – there seems to be remarkably little information on Wireless n in Ubuntu that I can find! Though when I do a listing of the wireless channels it has available it does list a whole raft of 5GHz ones which I thought were only in Wireless n – so not too sure!
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You need to use aes encryption. Won’t go n speed until you do so. WPA2 with AES should do the job.
January 28, 2009 at 5:50 pm #169188MrBeardyMemberThe thinkpad ones are definitely not compatible, even tho some of the ibm laptops have the same intel chipset. It was detected ok, drivers installed but the device refused to start, code 10 regardless of what i altered. The genreic one worked straight away. They can lock cards to specific manufacturers.
January 28, 2009 at 9:52 pm #169216fred111MemberI was having a lot of problems with the Atheros wifi card so I just put in an Intel 5300. Loaded the newest drivers from Intel and started it up. Works great!!!! No more cutting out. I have it set on the 5GHz band and have a stong link throughout the house. I ordered the third antenna and it should be here tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for the great advise.
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