Hey guys.
This problem has basically been the bane of my existence since I started using Windows 7 when it first made retail. I keep getting an intermittent quality of wireless connection. Sometimes I have to wait a good 30 minutes - 2 hours for my wireless card to authenticate and establish a connection with my router and allow me to access the internet. Other times it will connect straight away but suffer from a painfully slow connection with a lot of time outs.
The card I'm using is a TP-Link TL-WN851N from OcUK (a 300mbps wireless N adapter). I was using a generic 802.11n 300mbps card before from another vendor but it was driving me up the wall with its uselessness. My current card uses the Atheros AR922X chipset.
I've tried numerous driver updates and rollbacks to try and fix it all to no avail. The other 4-5 computers on my network all work fine and my own laptop (Alienware M11X running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit) works flawlessly on the network too.
Now, part of me can't shake there is some kind of fault with the PCI slot, but surely if this were the case the wireless card wouldn't be detected at all?
I also tried to install some modded Atheros drivers designed to fix the problem, but Win7 refused to accept them and decided to BSOD in defiance... I've read that it is a problem with WPA2 authentication, but seeing as my other Windows 7 machines are having no issues with WPA2 I'm loathed to switch back to the easily hackable WEP authentication.
I'm sure this problem is quite widespread, anybody have any suggestions?
This problem has basically been the bane of my existence since I started using Windows 7 when it first made retail. I keep getting an intermittent quality of wireless connection. Sometimes I have to wait a good 30 minutes - 2 hours for my wireless card to authenticate and establish a connection with my router and allow me to access the internet. Other times it will connect straight away but suffer from a painfully slow connection with a lot of time outs.
The card I'm using is a TP-Link TL-WN851N from OcUK (a 300mbps wireless N adapter). I was using a generic 802.11n 300mbps card before from another vendor but it was driving me up the wall with its uselessness. My current card uses the Atheros AR922X chipset.
I've tried numerous driver updates and rollbacks to try and fix it all to no avail. The other 4-5 computers on my network all work fine and my own laptop (Alienware M11X running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit) works flawlessly on the network too.
Now, part of me can't shake there is some kind of fault with the PCI slot, but surely if this were the case the wireless card wouldn't be detected at all?
I also tried to install some modded Atheros drivers designed to fix the problem, but Win7 refused to accept them and decided to BSOD in defiance... I've read that it is a problem with WPA2 authentication, but seeing as my other Windows 7 machines are having no issues with WPA2 I'm loathed to switch back to the easily hackable WEP authentication.
I'm sure this problem is quite widespread, anybody have any suggestions?
