I've had this Dell Inspiron 580 for about 10 months now, and for about the first 8 months it connected to our wireless network without any problems.
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Also of note, the router is too far away ( ~ 25 ft & downstairs ) from the Inspiron 580 to run a wired Ethernet connection. This unit is rock solid, strong signal throughout the house, and no connectivity problems with many other wireless devices in our home, including a Toshiba laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop that I bring home frequently from work, relatives' Apple computers, etc. The router is set up to broadcast its 2.4 GHz signal with WPA2 - PSK encryption, and as an added security feature, was set to not broadcasting my network name. My home wireless network is broadcasted from a Netgear WNDR 3700 dual band ( 2.4 GHz - 802.11 b/g/n compliant & 5 GHz 802.11 a/n compliant ) router / wireless hub.
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DELL DW1525 WLAN DRIVER SOFTWARE
Brief synopsis - don't set your wireless router to not broadcast your network name, the DW1525 router or its software will not connect reliably to your network, even though your network, with its hidden name, appears in the list of available networks.įor the benefit of others who might encounter similar problems, I want to share my learning from many hours over the past 2 weeks on the phone to Dell support, and on my own, trying to figure out why my 10-month new Inspiron 580S compact desktop, equiped with the DW1525 PCle wirlesss network card, has recently been making a wireless connection only about 50% of the time after booting up the computer ( 580S - Intel Core i3-550 CPU with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and ordinary software MS Office suite, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator ).