Conflict between Intel 4965agn and Dell 355 Bluetooth?

[wcnngt]

This happens on my newly bought Dell Inspiron 1525. Whenever I connect a bluetooth device to my computer, such like stereo headphone or bluetooth mouse, the wireless transfer of my 802.11g wifi almost stops. The connection is still there, but just barely any transfer. Never used a draft N card before, so I wonder if this is wireless signal interference or driver problem.

[Greg]

I think both technologies use 2.4GHz radio, so its certainly possible to have interference.

If you have home WiFi, you can probably change the frequency of your WiFi network to a little higher or lower (there are 11 802.11g channels for instance, and you can pick one) and maybe get rid of the problem when you are at home.

[wcnngt]

Thanks for the advice. So which channel should I put my 802.11g router on? It is a linksys wrt54g.

I have used bluetooth headphone and wifi together without problem before. It was on my DELL 1405 which has a Dell 802.11g card and a older Dell bluetooth card. So I wonder if the problem is specific to the N card. If so, I will replace it with a g card.

[Jstn7477]

The software on my Toshiba recommends that I only have either the wireless or the BT running alone, as they can affect each other's performance.

-J.B.

[wcnngt]

That sucks. All I want to do is to browse online wirelessly using bluetooth mouse. Or use Skype talk wirelessly through bluetooth headphone.

[chelet]

Can you use the "a" frequency instead of the "g" with your router?
Or does it only do "g" ?

[apples]

I have the exact same computer and the exact same problem. The only work around that I have found thus far it to use the dongle that came with my mouse and it doesn't cause a problem with the internet. This is sucks because it was the reason that I purchased "internal bluetooth" in the first place. I am sure that MANY other people have this problem but they haven't yet put 2 & 2 together and realized why the internet slows down and as such are just complaining about slow internet. I did read somewhere about using one of the wlan antenna wired to connect to the third nodule on the wifi card to improve intenet performance. That is the ONLY thing that I didn't try just yet. It does no good to change frequencies because you obviously won't have that luxury when you are out and about. They need to work together or else why did they sell them.

[wcnngt]

My solution so far: replace wifi card with dell 1395. It is broadcomm based chip and it has the option for bluetooth collaboration. It works great

[Sparky 1720]

A dual band N router can get you connected at 5ghz frequency at N speeds and you loose the interference with the bluetooth.

Intel 4965 only does high speed N on the 5ghz band because of the problems you are seeing... the 2.4 ghz band is overcrowded.

[phy]

Can you use the "a" frequency instead of the "g" with your router?
Or does it only do "g" ?

its a wrt54g... only does b/g