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In my Dell Vostro 1500 the stock wifi card (Intel WM3945ABG) was stalling at random intervals and lacked 5GHz support; the 4965AGN was the OEM upgrade option for this model, so I bought this card as a cheap replacement. The 4965 works out of the box on Ubuntu Linux using the standard iwl4965 kernel driver. However, this is now a very old card design so its support for 802.11n is only draft spec and may not play nicely with final spec devices. While this card initially works OK in both 2.4 and 5GHz bands, if not maintaining a high upstream load it soon drops packets with the iwconfig command showing high Tx excessive retries and Invalid misc counts. This does not negatively impact all applications (e.g. web browsing is OK), but can be critical for things like video streams which will hang and stutter. The only known workaround on Linux is to force disable n-mode and fall back to 802.11g (54Mbps max) where the card has no problems. Users with other operating systems may find that their driver handles the flaws in n-mode better, but if you're using Linux you should consider newer models if you want 802.11n operation.Read full review
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