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Hi... I have an X61 with agn wireless. I have tried using it with a Linksys WRT350N router, but they don't seem to play well together. Reading other posts here & elsewhere seems to confirm that.

I am wondering what N router(s) seem to work really well with the X61 hardware? If you have had good results at N level speeds & stable connections, could you post what router you are using?

Thanks!

My X61T is working great with the Linksys WRT330N Wireles Gaming Router. I can't imagine that the WRT350N is that much different...are you sure you have it configured correctly? Also, if you are using Windows Vista...it will only report the wireless radio as a "Wireless G" device, not a "Wireless N" device and this made me think that mine was not working correctly at first. But if you look at your connected speed under status in the network & sharing center (mine shows 130.0Mbps) you will see that you are actually connected (hopefully) at "N-Speeds" since 56Mbps is the max for "G" routers.

Thanks for the suggestions. My "Status speed" shows 54mbps. I have a desktop on this router as well which appears to be running at N speeds. I have tried everything that I have read with little improvement. Sometimes, my connection just freezes up as well. I have to restart to get it working again.

My network guy at my business said that he too has seen people with problems with this combination in various forums. I am thinking that maybe a different router might work better, but I could be off base.

I can tell you that I will never, ever buy an Apple Airport Express. We have some of these at our office, and everyone with a ThinkPad has intermittent connectivity and throughput problems. Both Intel and Atheros cards, and regardless of Access Connections, native XP or native Vista.

The very inexpensive Linksys access points work perfectly, though. Of course they don't have the Apple industrial design ... but I think I really prefer something that works.

Take a look at what DAH posted in the following thread...

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=48314

FYI

dd-wrt.com

tomh009 wrote:I can tell you that I will never, ever buy an Apple Airport Express. We have some of these at our office, and everyone with a ThinkPad has intermittent connectivity and throughput problems. Both Intel and Atheros cards, and regardless of Access Connections, native XP or native Vista.

I'm having the same type of problems with the Apple Airport Extreme base station and my X61t (connection will drop every few minutes, except the signal strength stays high, hangs on connection repair). The Apple hardware is nice, but seems to have some compatibility issues.

Anyone else using an Airport Extreme with their Thinkpad?

Dlink D655 for sure

Not the D655, rather the D855.

The D855 does BOTH 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz simultaneously, and according to the thread linked above, you want the simultaneous version.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=548

I just ordered the Buffalo WZR2-G300N with the N draft 2.0 spec. I have a buddy that has it and he says it works great. He said his range was a definite increase over his previous linksys router. I'll let you know my experiences when I get mine.

By the way it's pretty cheap too ...like $80 on Newegg

I just slotted in an Atheros a/b/g/n card into the X60s and it connected at 130Mbit first time, no config needed, to a WRT350N (running dd-wrt), even though I only had two antennas connected

I am having a problem in that the WLAN card is preventing the machine from going into sleep mode, though

jmphillips wrote:My X61T is working great with the Linksys WRT330N Wireles Gaming Router. I can't imagine that the WRT350N is that much different...are you sure you have it configured correctly? Also, if you are using Windows Vista...it will only report the wireless radio as a "Wireless G" device, not a "Wireless N" device and this made me think that mine was not working correctly at first. But if you look at your connected speed under status in the network & sharing center (mine shows 130.0Mbps) you will see that you are actually connected (hopefully) at "N-Speeds" since 56Mbps is the max for "G" routers.

Ditto, I too use the wrt330n and works like a champ with x61t

[edited] I have the DIR-655 and it connects fine at 130MPS and is stable (it's the Intel 4965AGN card I have in the X61T).