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Advanced-N 6200 AGN Wireless throughput Performance feedback

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I recently bought a new laptop which includes the Advanced-N 6200 AGN network card. I'm connecting to an Airport Extreme wireless basestation (wifi router). Performance was poor in comparison to the previous laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a Broadcom 802.11g card.

Using http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.speedtest.net/ to test upload/download rates, here's what I was seeing:

ComputerUpload MbpsDownload MbpsOperating SystemMac Desktop26.50.95Mac 10.6.8Dell Inspiron 152022.50.94Win 2008 ServerDell Studio 171.70.5Windows 7 Home Premium

Over at http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/sb/CS-030709.htm?wapkw=(What+are+the+recommended+settings+for+802.11g+connectivity) this page; you recommend using the Intel driver update to ensure the latest driver. I had only done Windows Update, so it is wrong to presume that that alone will bring you to the latest NIC driver. For the driver software version, I was at 13.x, now I'm at 14.2.0.10 (by the way, the update doesn't work in Chrome)

Now, I'm getting comensurate speeds:

ComputerUpload MbpsDownload MbpsOperating SystemDell Studio 1720.50.94Windows 7 Home Premium

So, while I'd like it to be on par, and there might be tweaks outside of what I performed on the page above I don't know about, but on the whole, that's much better.

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