Technosophy

Practical computer tips, with a smattering of digital philosophy

Monthly Archives: February 2012

Wireless networking slow, flaky, or crashing your router? Have an Intel 5300, 5100, 6205, 6300 wireless chipset? Disable 802.11n!

Has your Intel-based laptop’s wireless connection been bizarrely slow, buggy, or unstable since you can remember? Have you found that connecting to certain wireless routers can cause the routers themselves to crash?  If any of the above applies, you might want to try disabling your wireless card’s 802.11n functionality – even if you don’t ever [...]

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