Abit Airpace: Any good?

[Pleiades]

Hi,

Has anyone upgraded from a generic pci wifi card to one of these? And if so, did you experience any noticeable improvement at all?

Cheers!

[staffsMike]

I tried one, but unfortunatly it was vista 64bit and didnt work with the abit 64bit drivers..

I was in a rush so ended up using my asus PCI one instead.. the air pace is sat on my shelf lol

I doubt you would see much of an improvement tbh, they don't require all that much bandwidth afterall.

[Jay]

I really can't see any advantage to it to be honest. Even using it as a bridge is a bit stupid as you need to have your PC on to do it. If you have a PCI card then don't bother changing if you need a new card then this is as good as any and XP supports it natively.

[Blitzen]

I tried one, but unfortunatly it was vista 64bit and didnt work with the abit 64bit drivers..

I was in a rush so ended up using my asus PCI one instead.. the air pace is sat on my shelf lol

I doubt you would see much of an improvement tbh, they don't require all that much bandwidth afterall.

I use the Airpace....its very good.

Thats through a seven foot thick fireplace and the other side of the house.
(Also using 64Bit Vista Ultimate).

[staffsMike]

How did you get it to work? I had about 20 minutes to sort it so couldn't be bothered and then forgot all about it really.

The abit driver deffinatly didn't work at the time, I'm sure I wasn't being stupid lol

[digit]

Sorry delete me, posted before looking at the picture correctly!

[Agent]

I have used the airpace too and it was very good

Did nothing other than install the Abit driver off the website for it to work Mike on V64 *shrug*. They probably updated it

[CooperXS]

Using Abit Airpace with Vista x64 since 16th of February. Upgraded to SP1 later. No problems what so ever

[p5-]

I've used the airpace for about a year now, on xp sp2 though.

Signal strength, I've only an Acer laptop (Turion64, wireless is broadcom based I think) to compare it to but it gets 4/5 bars upstairs (router is downstairs), whereas my laptop might only get 2/3.

Whether that's an indication of good signal strength I'm not sure (some laptops have crap wireless sensitivity).

Reason I bought it was because it was the only pci-e card out at the time and I had run out of pci slots.

[Cistron]

Strangely, I have troubles with the card. It seems that the card isn't recognised at every startup. I run Vista (32bit), but sometimes the card simply doesn't show up in the device manager and i can't connect to my home WLAN.

Anyone else had such problems?

[Agent]

Can't say I've seen that issue with this card - make sure your BIOS is up to date

[Cistron]

I've browsed a bit regarding the matter. Apparently, the card is not fast enough to initiate itself on some systems - so say the Abit forums. Paradoxically, I run my system on an Abit IP35 with latest BIOS ... rubbish.

[Elessar_VPR]

Been running it on Vista 64 for about a year now. Very occasionally (talking about once every couple of months) it doesn't seem to initiate but a restart soon deals with that. Otherwise it just works (on an Abit IP35-Pro myself).

[Cistron]

Still have the same problem. Every second start-up or so the card won't show up in the device manager.

[streetster]

I had issues with vista x64 and this card, using windows 7 x64 now using the built-in driver - 'Atheros AR5006X' and its a lot more reliable than it was with the official driver in Vista