Owner's Manual

Host Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
NDIS5 miniport driver, NDIS6 miniport driver
Medium access protocol CSMA/CA (collision avoidance) with acknowledgment (ACK)
Data Rate (Mbps)
IEEE 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11
IEEE 802.11g: 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
IEEE 802.11a: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
IEEE 802.11n, 20 MHz bandwidth: 130, 117, 104, 78, 52, 39, 26, 13
IEEE 802.11n, 40 MHz bandwidth: 270, 243, 216, 162, 108, 81, 54, 27
NOTE: The Dell Wireless WLAN Card uses an automatic transmit rate select
mechanism.
Radio Characteristics
NOTES:
See Regulatory for country-specific performance characteristics and use restrictions.
The power levels shown in the following table for IEEE 802.11n operation are per transmit stream.
Characteristic
Description
Frequency Band
IEEE 802.11b: 2.4 GHz (2400–2500 MHz)
IEEE 802.11g: 2.4 GHz (2400–2500 MHz)
IEEE 802.11a: 5 GHz (4900–5850 MHz)
IEEE 802.11n: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
Modulation Technique
IEEE 802.11b: Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)
CCK for high and medium transmit rate
DQPSK for standard transmit rate
DBPSK for low transmit rate
IEEE 802.11g: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
52 subcarriers with BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM or 64-QAM
Forward error correction convolutional coding rate: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4
IEEE 802.11a: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
52 subcarriers with BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM or 64-QAM
Forward error correction convolutional coding rate: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4
IEEE 802.11n: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
Spreading IEEE 802.11b: 11-chip Barker sequence
Bit Error Rate (BER)
Better than 10
-5
Nominal Output Power
IEEE 802.11b: 19 dBm
IEEE 802.11g: 15 dBm
IEEE 802.11a: 15 dBm
IEEE 802.11n (2.4 GHz): 17 dBm
IEEE 802.11n (5 GHz): 14 dBm
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