Advanced Mobile Wireless Card From Dell Bolsters Speed, Range

Advanced Mobile Wireless Card From Dell Bolsters Speed, Range

Dell today announced an internal wireless mini card capable of giving many of its notebook customers up to five times the speed and twice the range of the industry’s widely used 802.11g Wi-Fi technology standard. The Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n dual-band wireless card is available now for all DellTM XPSTM mobile systems and select InspironTM notebooks.

Dell also unveiled a new software utility, Dell Network Assistant, to help simplify the set up and management of wireless networks. The application is pre-installed on all new Dell XPS systems, Inspiron notebooks, DimensionTM desktops and select Dell PrecisionTM workstations. When connected to a wireless Draft 802.11n network router featuring Intensi-fiTM technology, the Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n wireless card supports data rates up to 270 megabits per second (Mbps) , versus the maximum 54 Mbps with 802.11g wireless technology. The Dell card is Wi-Fi certified to ensure backward compatibility with 802.11g, 802.11b and 802.11a wireless standards.

With increased throughput and greater range, 802.11n wireless technology easily manages challenging tasks that can bog down a wireless network, such as multi-user, graphic-intensive gaming, high-definition video streaming or transferring large data or multimedia files. Users can also experience greater mobility, connecting to the wireless network in areas that may have formerly been out of range, such as porches and decks.

The Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n wireless card, priced at $59, features a next-generation wireless technology based on the 1.0 draft of the IEEE 802.11n specification. Faster speeds and increased range are enabled by a sophisticated antenna system that manages the transmission and receipt of multiple simultaneous data streams (Multi-Input, Multi-Output or MIMO).

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