Never got it to work properly, even with a new Win7 7600 install. Instead bridged my o2 wireless box, hooked it up to a DIR-655, and bought a wireless n adaptor for the Zotac. Got reliable GigE and wireless n now, miles better. That via wifi card really is a PoS.
Zotac 9300 WIFI wireless problem
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Never got it to work properly, even with a new Win7 7600 install. Instead bridged my o2 wireless box, hooked it up to a DIR-655, and bought a wireless n adaptor for the Zotac. Got reliable GigE and wireless n now, miles better. That via wifi card really is a PoS.
Well, after running Windows 7 Professional 64bit for a while, I can concur. The stock VIA card that comes with the Zotac 9300 ITX WiFi card connects and maintains a connection, but there were further significant problems that I could not resolve. Firstly, the download speeds were decreasing by a factor of 5 after several minutes in a large download, and nothing but a re-activation of the adapter was capable of bringing them up to normal again. Secondly, after installing an EVGA GTS250 in the system, the sensitivity of the card decreased very considerably. I wasted several days trying to fix these problems before discovering the radical solution, which was to buy an EDIMAX EW-7711UAn USB adapter and remove the internal card (no need to have it consume power if it is not used). The EDIMAX is small and cheap but, most importantly, works very well.
That's funny. Great minds must think alike betaspin, I did exactly the same, including the adaptor model and internal card removal...
Interesting coincidence, indeed. In the past I was prejudiced against anything that was RALink based (due to some not that satisfying experience with the built-in WiFi card in an Asus EEE PC 901 which was quickly replaced by an Intel one), but the Edimax is obviously a much better implementation.