Well I finally have a stable wireless network adapter. After buying 3, yes 3... as a last resort i tried taking the PCI card out of my old PC and googling what it says on the box, and to my suprise Sitecom have supported a product from 2004 with Vista 32bit and 64bit drivers for this year. The card is similar in looks to the Netgear WL311T, but must be older (it's a Sitecom WL-115).
It runs better (so far..) than a DLink USB 300mb wireless N device, a 108mbps wireless G Netgear WL311T card and an awful Netnear USB device.
The only problem is I seem to be experiencing lag spikes when playing online. I've only tried Steam games (HL 2 : Death Match, CS:S, DOD:S and TF2) - randomly every minute or few minutes it will "hang" and the action will pause, and then it'll put me back in the action but I'll either be dead or about 2 seconds behind. I actually have a low ping of around 20 - 40 on most of the servers I've tried, too.
It's been fine for browsing so far with none of those infamous (and annoying) random cutouts and overheating. Downloading seems fine, too.
Is this possibly a settings issue or does Vista really hate all these wireless devices that much, or have I just been terribly unlucky?
I have disabled the windows firewall - I have on "Network discovery", "File sharing", "Public folder sharing", and "password protected sharing". This is the only PC on the network, so can I/should I turn any of those off?
Any general advice? All is welcome.
Thank you.


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