wireless adaptor for vista help

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As title really. I use vista 32 and with my 54mbps netgear usb adaptor and it wouldnt even do the 'beep beep' hardware detected noise. We get a new router as the old one died and it came with a 104mbps (or whatever) netgear adapter and it works fine upon start-up, then decides there is no adaptor plugged in or it says device malfunctioned. So internet use is limited to 5 mins then a restart is needed.


Is it just netgear products doing this??
Anyone got a specific pci/usbwireless adapter they recommend??

The current two adapters are usb ones.

 

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anyone? I want to buy tomorrow if needed

 

[J.B]

Im guessing as its happened twice you could try updating your chipset drivers, possibly check the power saving options on the USB bus.

My girlfriend used a Netgear 54Mbps USB adaptor for ages with no problems

 

[Borden]

I use a Linksys WMP54GS PCI adapter which has worked flawlessly. I didn't even need to install drivers in Vista 64. It worked on the standard drivers and then updated to the official drivers later.

 

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Im guessing as its happened twice you could try updating your chipset drivers, possibly check the power saving options on the USB bus.

My girlfriend used a Netgear 54Mbps USB adaptor for ages with no problems

tried the usb power thing and updated chipset drivers, nothing I think its something to do with windows as sometimes it wont even do the beep beep noise
My netgear 54mbps worked fine for years on xp....but vista hates it