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May 12th, 2015 07:00
Inspiron Intel Wireless N 7260 with POOR performance
The laptop was purchased 8/2014. I am having issues with my WIFI connection and had our cable service provider out today. They isolated the issue to the laptop. They proved this by running speed tests on various devices. This laptop was the only device that produced such slow download speeds <6 Mbps while the other devices are running anywhere from 50 Mbps to as high as 90 Mbps. If I connect this laptop via Ethernet it runs in the 90 Mbps range.
The WIFI on this device is an Intel Wireless N 7260 and the driver version is 16.6.0.8 runs at 2.4GHz only.
Does anyone know if this is defective (it passed all the tests) or is this something that needs to be upgraded already? Is there an upgrade?
PudgyOne
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May 14th, 2015 13:00
jjdeadhead,
Did you recently install/reinstall/upgrade the operating system?
Did you try the drivers from Dell's website? Go to Drivers and Downloads enter your service tag, select your operating system, under network, download the drivers and save them to your desktop.
Make a system restore point.
Go to device manager, network adapters, right click on Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260, left click uninstall. Tell it to remove the software and drivers. Then restart your computer. When you login, the new hardware wizard will try to install the drivers. Install the drivers you saved to your desktop.
Try these tweaks....
Start, control panel, device manager. Click on Network and then right click on your network adapter, left click properties, power management. Uncheck the box, allow computer to turn off this device to save power.
Go to the power options, and changed the Wireless Adapter Setting, from Maximum Power Setting to Maximum Performance.
Rick
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May 13th, 2015 13:00
I have the same WIFI adapter in my laptop and am experiencing the same problems. Also it consistently drops connections, regardless of the access point I'm connected to. I have updated all drivers etc. but no improvement.
Latitude E5440
jjdeadhead
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May 15th, 2015 16:00
Thanks Rick I will try this. I really appreciate your time!!!!!!!!!!!