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I tried looking through the forums for this, but was unsuccessful in finding the solution. I apologize if this problem has already been addressed.

I have a Wireless-N router (Linksys WRT300N) and whenever my X61 AGN connects to it, it connects using G. Now, I am fine with that, but the problem arrives when I switch my router to ONLY broadcast in "N" mode. My laptop is NOT able to connect using N. I have checked the driver Advanced Settings and 802.11N is Enabled and the Channel Width is on Auto.

Can someone help with this. I have checked the Intel site to make sure my card is able to connect using 802.11N wireless mode and from what I can tell, it is. Why else would it have "N" in the model of the card.(?)

Thank you

welcome to the forum.

what is your 7 character model-type #?

i've seen a number of machines spec'ed like: Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled). not sure why, but with your model#, we could check.

The model of the network card is: 4965AGN (does not have "N-Disabled" written anywhere)

The model of my computer is: 7764CTO

what i meant was a designation like: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... ry=76673FU
rather than a specific marking on the card.

Make sure you are using WPA2 and AES (or TKIP but AES is better).

Thank you. I have checked, and it may be that my router does not support high throughput.

Thank you, again, for looking into this problem

Midgardtauri wrote:it may be that my router does not support high throughput.

?? you have a wifi-n router that doesn't support wifi-n? a fine match for a lenovo agn card that doesn't support wifi-n!

Midgardtauri wrote:I have a Wireless-N router (Linksys WRT300N) and whenever my X61 AGN connects to it, it connects using G.

You need a router that supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio bands (such as a Linksys WRT600N or WRT610N) to get ~270Mbps connection with an AGN4965 card.

The AGN4965 is fully compliant with the 802.11n draft 2 specification and does not support ~270Mbps operation solely in the 2.4Ghz band.

If you set an AGN4965 up correctly (use WPA/WPA2 with AES encryption settings) you should be able to get ~130Mpbs connections in the 2.4Ghz band with the WRT300N, provided there is not a lot of 802.11g traffic in your vicinity.

Cheers

Bill B.