spoke to soon on belkin pre-n

The pre-n laptop card repeatedly failed on downloading eclipse (90MB).
When i switched to the internal g card the download worked, though half
as fast.

That's not ok.

Anyone have a suggestion for another pre-n kind of product?
How is the linksys?

Two questions:

What is the CPU in your laptop?
Do you have the latest PC Card drivers?

- JB
"greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The pre-n laptop card repeatedly failed on downloading eclipse (90MB).
> When i switched to the internal g card the download worked, though half as
> fast.
>
> That's not ok.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion for another pre-n kind of product?
> How is the linksys?

JB wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> What is the CPU in your laptop?

Inspiron 9200 has the 2.1ghz

> Do you have the latest PC Card drivers?

I emailed belkin a week ago asking where their updated drivers were and
have had no response.

"greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> JB wrote:
>> Two questions:
>>
>> What is the CPU in your laptop?
>
> Inspiron 9200 has the 2.1ghz

Which processor, P4 or M?
>
>> Do you have the latest PC Card drivers?
>
> I emailed belkin a week ago asking where their updated drivers were and
> have had no response.

So you have this one:
http://web.belkin.com/support/downlo...ad=1469&lang=1

JB wrote:

> Which processor, P4 or M?

M

>>>Do you have the latest PC Card drivers?
>>
>>I emailed belkin a week ago asking where their updated drivers were and
>>have had no response.
>
>
> So you have this one:
> http://web.belkin.com/support/downlo...ad=1469&lang=1
>

How do i find out? It doesn't show up in the properties.

"greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> JB wrote:
>
>> Which processor, P4 or M?
>
> M
>
See, in my experience, the laptop really does effect performance. On a
high-end desktop replacement notebook, I've been getting easily 35. But, on
a lowly 2 GHz machine I could never get over 17. I'm not sure why this is --
I wish I knew. Same card, same driver, same router, same distance, same
network interference.

>
> How do i find out? It doesn't show up in the properties.

One of the fastest ways to know if you have the latest: just grab the latest
and install.

JB wrote:
> See, in my experience, the laptop really does effect performance. On a
> high-end desktop replacement notebook, I've been getting easily 35. But, on
> a lowly 2 GHz machine I could never get over 17. I'm not sure why this is --
> I wish I knew. Same card, same driver, same router, same distance, same
> network interference.

This machine is 4 times faster than my old desktop so it's hard to think
of it as slow :-) I would hope the card is doing most of the work, but
maybe not. On XP can i figure out where CPU is being spent at the driver
level?

>>How do i find out? It doesn't show up in the properties.
>
> One of the fastest ways to know if you have the latest: just grab the latest
> and install.

And watch my life melt away in a pool of driver failure?

"greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> JB wrote:

>
> This machine is 4 times faster than my old desktop so it's hard to think
> of it as slow :-) I would hope the card is doing most of the work, but
> maybe not. On XP can i figure out where CPU is being spent at the driver

I'm relaying real-wrold experience -- two laptops, two different results.
One of the laptops is similar to your, but unfortunately, it was the one
that ran at 17.

>> One of the fastest ways to know if you have the latest: just grab the
>> latest and install.
>
> And watch my life melt away in a pool of driver failure?

I use it, works fine for me. Newer drivers cause less driver failure, not
more.