Aerothread

I experienced some wifi issues last time on my Dell Studio XPS 16 (and my wife’s one), using both Intel Wifi Link 5300 AGN and Intel Centrino 6200-N.

I googled around and I was really sure the problem was coming from the 6200-N card, which was known on some posts to be very “roaming” sensitive, that said, subject to frequent disconnections. Some people resolved their issues by downgrading the wireless adapter driver from 13.2.1.x (the latest revision as today).

Intel also suggest in this troubleshooting page to disable power saving on the adapter, and to double check some device parameters, like the “roaming aggressivity” (set to medium).

The funniest thing about this is that I started having the same kind of troubles, which I never had before, on my own laptop, shipped several months ago with the 5300 AGN.

So I think I resolved my issues and here is how.

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