This laptop has a Dell 1510 Wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4322 chipset.

In any case, I began digging into the WLAN NIC settings. No idea if that’s a result of the iPhone not supporting something the laptop was trying on the Cisco network, or supporting something in a different manner that disagreed with the drivers. Oddly, if I enabled hot spot on my iPhone, the issue went away. This was connected to a Cisco AP with most flavors of wireless enabled minus the legacy 802.11b speeds. Pinging even the default gateway was showing about 80% packet loss, and responses I did get were seeing anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds latency. I know Windows updates are ridiculous, but 12 hours?! I discovered it appeared to be a networking issue. I bought a copy of Windows 10 Pro (since Home stupidly doesn’t come with BitLocker) to replace the Win7 that was installed, and did the install.Īfter install, Windows Update had been running for 12 hours and still hadn’t finished installation. I figured it’s not a bad device even though it’s 8+ years old 2.4 GHz dual core CPU, 8 GB of memory, a 300 GB SSD that I had put in it at some point, 1920×1200 WUXGA screen, nearly every port you can imagine minus HDMI, and a DVD burner.

I found an old Dell Precision Workstation Laptop M4400 and decided to wipe it out and prep it to donate to a local charity. Not sure if anyone will ever actually find this article useful, as we’re dealing with ancient technology here, but I figured I’ll write it out just in case.

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