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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Intel Wifi Link 5100

Hi all. I'm considering ditching my laptop's Broadcom BCM4312 for an Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN. This is primarily because of it's native driver support, as the broadcom isn't giving me very good performance and it's range is quite random (using broadcom-wl driver.)

Anyone have any experience with the wifi link 5100, good or bad? Notebookreview has mixed reviews, mostly from windows users. Some say the card is horrible, some say it's great. The way I'm seeing it atm is that it can't be worse than my broadcom as far as drivers go.

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elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100

I think the 5300 would be a better card, especially if you plan to use it on N networks. The only problem with it is that it requires 3 antennas, the 5100 only requires 2.

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100

Yeah my laptop only has two antennas, so the 5300 isn't an option.

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bfc

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Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 7

Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100

I have an Intel 5100.  I can't get it to play well with N-networks, to many dropped connections.  Not sure if the Intel drivers suck or that the card sucks.  However, it does work very well with G-networks.