Mick Murphy

Netgear has had heaps of hassles with their Wireless NIC Cards since Vista
came out. I rang them in Feb, and their answer was maybe updated Drivers in
May.
I went back to Cat5.

"Pete" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have some problems at the moment. I have a Dell Inspiron PC, with a G-link
> USB wireless adapter (DWL-G132) and a wireless router (Netgear DG834GT). I
> also had a Netgear WPN111 USB adapter but it was horrible, kept dropping
> connections.
>
> Anyway, the issues I have are:
> 1) Upon startup, the adapter does not automatically connect to the router. I
> have to spend the first 5-10 minutes getting it to firstly see my router and
> then connect to it
> 2) Once connected, the connection is patchy, that is, I click on a URL,
> sometimes the response is immediate, sometimes it pauses for maybe 10-15
> seconds before the page appears. I also get timeouts when using iTunes and
> other apps. So performance-wise, I'm having a major problem. This is further
> characterised when I'm downloading. I'll see a burst of incoming traffic,
> then a pause, then another burst, then a pause, and so on. Under XP it was
> constant.
> 3) Using the Netgear WPN111 adapter, I also had the additional issue of it
> just dropping it's connection to my router, with the only resolution being
> either a unplug/replug of the adapter or a complete reboot of the PC. After
> 24 hours, no sign of this with the D-link - here's hoping.
>
> I've seen lots of articles and web pages abour Vista wireless networking
> issues, but none that seem to reflect what I'm experiencing. If anyone has
> any ideas, I'd be very appreciative. In the meantime, the search goes on.
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
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