Anyone order the Dell B120 w/free wireless card?

[Dork42775]

Hi, i have been waiting (forever!) for my Dell B120 notebook for the $449 special price and now after doing some research i think i will be pissed when it gets here. I have read in the Dell forums that even though it does have the wireless card and states it will be able to go wireless it does not have an internal antenna in it and is'nt designed to be upgraded to add one. Meaning that if you want to go somewhere and get a WIFI connection or network it in your house with a wireless router you cannot go any farther away than 6 feet or so from your modem/router.

Does that seem right for them to design this this way and not state it in the text of the specs for this model? Will someone who has already received theirs let me know if this is 100% true because everyone in their forum agree's about this problem.

[Mikser]

I have a Dell B120 and I can go anywhere in my house and still receive an excellent signal. So I don't think that is 100% acurate.

[RossMAN]

I have read in the Dell forums that even though it does have the wireless card and states it will be able to go wireless it does not have an internal antenna in it and is'nt designed to be upgraded to add one. Meaning that if you want to go somewhere and get a WIFI connection or network it in your house with a wireless router you cannot go any farther away than 6 feet or so from your modem/router.

 

I have a Dell Inspiron 700m laptop with internal wireless card (Intel 2200 802.11b/g) and I can definitely go further than 6 feet.

 

Would you please provide a link to that bogus thread?

 

Our 802.11b wireless router is downstairs, we use wireless 100% of the time and never have any problems.

[biomajor]

My son has the inspiron 8600 and our router is upstairs and he's in his room which is a bit further than 30 feet in a diagonal throught the floor :-)

[Dork42775]

By what i understand it is only the B120 and it is not the card it is the fact that there is no internal antenna. I will go back to the Dell forums and post this info but there are alot of complaints about this problem. Hopefully it is something that they have since repaired but you never know on a low end model.

[Dork42775]

Try this link

 

 

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_wireless&message.id=14963&query.id=573506#M14963

[labgeek]

Man if that's true, that's pretty scummy... But after my recent experiences with Dell it would not surprise me.

 

If that card has not antenna itself, and there's no internal intenna, then there's no load on the transmitter... you could damage the transmitter