Here is a guide to the advanced settings you have and the recommended settings for them. make a note of where the settings are now so if something goes buggy, you can change them back. The antennas go all the way up to the top of your screen.ĭid you fiddle around with your network card's advanced settings? They can be found by clicking on the card in the device manager, clicking on the advanced tab. I suppose you can use an external USB adapter but I would get one with an external antenna connected to it, because I would have to believe the 3 antenna wire setup in your notebook has to provide superior reception over a plain USB wireless adapter with an internal antenna as its only antenna. You can try a different card listed in the manual if you want.īroadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g WLAN module (not a wireless N card) The Intel 5300 is not supported (only the cards/part numbers listed in the service manual can be installed) and your notebook wouldn't boot until you removed the card.

What I meant by my statement regarding you having the better of the available cards for your notebook is that, yes, I am sure the Intel 5300 is an improvement over the 5100, but the problem is you can't install the 5300 in your notebook.

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