I recently bought a dell inspiron 1525 with a Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card running vista. My router is a Linksys WRT350N running WPA2 encryption. For some reason, when I transfer between the laptop and the desktop, the speed is capped at roughly 2.2-2.5 MB a sec, or, wireless g speeds. If I set the router to only accept wireless N connections, the laptop becomes unable to connect to the network anymore, which makes no sense, the wireless card is capable of wireless n.

I've tried resetting the router to its factory defaults, I even formatted the laptop and reinstalled the drivers, but no luck. I've updated the wireless card to the latest drivers. I flashed the router's firmware to the latest version. Still nothing. The laptop only connects at 54 mb/s (wireless g). Still unable to connect with the router set to accept wireless-n only. I have no other devices to test wireless-n with.

I wonder if this may have something to do with it. In the properties for the wireless card, 802.11n doesn't show up under wireless modes, however you can see the mentions of 802.11n at the top, and I have wireless-n set to enabled there, but still no luck. If anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it!

I recently bought a dell inspiron 1525 with a Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card running vista. My router is a Linksys WRT350N running WPA2 encryption. For some reason, when I transfer between the laptop and the desktop, the speed is capped at roughly 2.2-2.5 MB a sec, or, wireless g speeds.

Since 802.11n is not yet a standard that means the chances of interoperability between brand names range somewhere between slim and nonexistent....as you are presently discovering. Probably the only way you'll get N to work at it's rated bandwidth is if all devices are made by the same manufacturer.

If I were you, I'd set everything to G and leave it at that and worry about N after it's become a standard.

It's worth noting, anything you buy now that's N may not work properly once it's become a standard and all manufacturers comply with the standard and produce standardized equipment.

The above are all the reasons I wouldn't touch N at this point in time.

Is it possible that I could find a linksys made notebook wireless-n adapter I could use in my laptop?

I have no doubt you could, just start calling computer stores and get quotes on PCMCIA wireless-N notebook adapters.

I've been looking into purchasing a linksys pcmcia card, and found a suitable one for $50. However during this, I installed SP1 for vista, and I appear to be able to connect at 130 Mb/sec, and am transferring files at roughly 7-9 megabytes/sec. I disconnected and reconnected to the network and it seems to be maintaining that speed. Hopefully it's not just a fluke and will continue to work. If not, I will buy the linksys card. Thanks for the advice!