Hey,
I've just bought this card to work under Windows XP and connect to a Netgear WGR614 router.
I'm not having much luck. To begin with I physically installed the card, extract the drivers from the supplied disk and installed them via device manager.
Windows reported the wireless network, I attempted to connect, I entered the WEP key and then it just sat there... trying to connect... for ages...
Eventually I gave up, uninstalled the card and installed it using the setup on the provided disk. This came with utilities, as I'd had little luck with Windows' own, I decided I'd give Asus' utilities a go.
I managed to connect, though the connection was unreliable and download speeds hovered around 5-20ksec. Unhappy with this I tried a few different channels on the card, hoping to get a more reliable connection.
The thing is, both Windows and the Asus utility report reception as "Excellent"?
Anyway, to cut a long story short, after fiddling with the card's channel it now won't connect at all. Not even if I return it to the exact same settings as before.
I even took the card out deleted the *.sys driver file, installed it into a different PCI slot in the hope that starting fresh would resolve all my problems - wrong.
So is this a problematic card, is there a card considered the wireless network card to have, one I can just plug in that will work off-the-bat?
Sorry if I'm rambling a bit!
laze.


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