The Dell Wireless 1505 is an internal Wireless solution for Desktop PC’s.

It consists of two parts

1) The internal card.

2) The cable box out antenna.

This one shipped in a Dell XPS 420 running a factory installed Windows Vista SP1.

So I connect the PC to my secure wireless router. All goes well for a few seconds (I browse the web) then it all stops.

I open the command prompt and try and ping the router and it can’t.

So I reboot the PC and try again browsing worked then stopped again.

Back at the command prompt I do a recursive ping on the router and see there is intermittent packet loss.

The distance between the PC and the Router is negligible.

The wireless security and IP settings are correct because it can ping but just not consistently.

So I give in and grab an ancient cheap 802.11g dongle that connected in seconds and has worked perfectly ever since.

I will revisit the Dell Wireless 1505 as I can’t believe this is the intended out of the box experience.

It may well be an incompatibility with by Wireless Router. The joy of tech.

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