poor wireless connection on one laptop, great on the other

[kater1]

I purchased a $299 walmart laptop at X-mas time lat year I believe. It is a Compaq V5305WM. It gets a excellent signal, 5 bars, from my Linksys befw11s4 v2.

A few weeks ago I purchased a Toshiba A135-S4527 from CC. It runs Windows Vista, which I don't care for. I can only get a two bar signal on it and get alot of drops, timeouts, and lockups while on the net. The Compaq is a wireless b, th Toshiba is a wireless b/g, the router is a wireless b. Would this make any difference?

 

[JackMDS]

Look at the wireless card drivers and see if you can force it to work as 802.11b only.

 

[kater1]

How would I do that?

Thanks

Bill

 

[nweaver]

in the driver properties are options to select modes for many wireless cards.

 

[kater1]

I can find no place to force the wireless card to stay in 'b' mode. Under the advanced tab there is

• 802.11b Preamble
  Network Address
  Receive Buffers
  Scan Valid Interval
  Transit Buffers

Is this where you mean? The only other tabs are General, Driver, Details, Resources, Power Management

 

[kater1]

I replaced my Linksys 'B' router with a Buffalo 'G' router and all is good now.