 Wait until the standard N comes out! Strengths: easy installation, good signal strength and pick-up range. faster than wireless G
Weaknesses: somewhat unstable. not as fast as advertized.
Summary: 2007-07-15 19:50:33 I upgraded the wifi card of my dell m1210 from 3945abg to this 4965agn. I'm using it with a Netgear WNR854T which has been certificated by Intel for the "NEXT N" compatibility.
First of all, check the compatibility of this card with your laptop and your router. This is an "express mini pci" card which works only with the Santa Rosa chipset (centrino duo or pro) as long as I know. And currently there is no market-wise standard for wireless N. Intel's Next N is a kind of Draft N.
It works OK if you don't expect too much. It's a little faster than wirelss G, but not 300mbps as advertised by the manufacturers. The actual max speed is 144mbps. In fact, after a short internet search, I found nobody could get 300mbps speed by any combination of a card and a router in the real world. And it doesn't seem as stable as wirelss G. Signal interruption, which is usually caused by a problem of the router or interference of other wireless devices, is not seriously frequent, but the card just stops working sometimes. Then my laptop shows a warning message like "no wifi device is detected."
So it is your choice. If you want to taste a cutting edge tech in advance, try it. Or if you are not a tech enthusiast, just wait a few more months or about a year until the standardized version of wireless N comes out.
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