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Wireless card performance varies on different laptops?

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lagvoid

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It should be obvious I don't know anything about this but I'm trying to understand where my problem lies.

I had a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop and just switched to a Toshiba laptop. I have a Netgear WG511T PC card which worked fine in the dell and not so well in the toshiba. The range seems to have dropped for some reason. In addition to the reduced range, my connection drops every few minutes when I'm not in the same room as the router. My brother has the same laptop using a netgear WG511 and it works flawlessly. I took my laptop to school today and had the same problems connecting on campus. With 70%+ signal ranges, the connection would continue dropping every few minutes.

I've tried different firmwares to no avail.

Windows XP Home w/ SP2
Netgear WGT624 Router
Netgear WG511T Pc card

Thanks for any input.
 
What software are you using to configure the card? If you're allowing Windows to configure your card, try downloading the manufacturer's configuration utility and using that. Or try using some generic software like T-Mobile's Connection Manager.
 
Assuming its not a software issue:

Could be:

card is broken ever since you switched from the dell
This particular laptop has interference with this particular network card
defective cardbus slot
they're just incompatible
 
I'm using netgears software to configure the card. I've tried using windows wireless config with no luck. I'll do somemore testing, thanks all.
 
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