Question New wireless adapter spontaneously cuts out depending on how it's feeling that day. Please help to solve the following questions: Question I have 5 questions related to wireless network. Question Wifi drops from 1000 mbps to 8 mbps when gaming ? Question WiFi: Recent Degradation of speed/performance - Wireless Adapter Issue? Question My USB Wireless adapter connects fine to Mobile Hotspot but will not connect to the home network most of the time Question Share all Hard Drives between 2 PCs wirelessly on a pulic Wifi It has a Realtek RTL8106E/RTL8111G fast ethernet device. It has a Dell Wireless 1705 + Bluetooth 4.0(2.4 GHz) device. My question: how can I further diagnose the Dell card? Also, especially are there any settings/tweaks which can be made to hopefully double the speed back to what appears to be normal. You have THIS Dell Inspiron 3542 laptop which originally came with Windows 8.1 64-bit. I have already run Dell diagnostics on the Dell WiFi card and it comes up Passed. older Intel card) is responsible for a 2x difference in speed. It's hard to imagine that the Hardware (newer Dell card vs. But the Dell card gives HALF the WiFi speed of the Intel card. Granted, the Inspiron has the Intel wimax 6250 WiFi card, which is probably a superior card although 5 years older. Aside from those, you can always opt to switch over to an USB Wireless-AC adapter. However, your safest bet would be to engage your OEM to find out. So, the Intel card delivers quite close to its Ethernet speed, which is the same as the 103.04 Ethernet speed for the other laptop. : Dell Wireless DW1703 WLAN WiFi 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth BT4.0 + HS Half-Height Mini-PCI Express Card AR5B225 not for IBM/Lenovo/Thinkpad and HP. Based on your systems support and downloads page, it seems your options will be between the same adapter or the Dell Wireless 1703, 1704, or 1705 WiFi + Bluetooth adapters.

Meanwhile, my 6+ year old Dell Inspiron 15R is 96.73 Mbps and is sitting next to the Latitude and running off the same 2.4 GHz router the same distance away. driver update for Dell Wireless 1705 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHZ) Windows 10 and later drivers,Windows 10 and Later Servicing Drivers for testing.

I just had fast internet upgraded and my 1.5 year old Dell Latitude 3540 speed test with the Dell Wireless 1705 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHZ wireless card is 47.71 Mbps. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Later Servicing Drivers.

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