Wireless PCI Adaptor Problem

[iftiq]

Hi,

I have a Belkin F5D7001 Wireless PCI Card and I'm running Windows 7x64. Windows recognized the card automatically upon installation and everything was working fine for at least a couple of months. The card has never given me any issues in XP or Windows 7 before. But about yesterday afternoon, I noticed that my internet connection was excruciatingly slow. I tried a variety of things but I think I've narrowed the problem to the Wifi card as my blackberry, ipod touch and laptop all work seamlessly over wifi.

The card does connect to the wireless network and it obtains an IP address. However when I try to ping my router I tend to get very bad ping times, ranging anywhere from 30 ms all the way to 2000 ms and over. It quite often tends to miss pings and I get the "request timed out" problem. Trying to browse the internet over the connection is all but impossible. I haven't change the position of the router, the desktop or placed anything that could conceivably interfere with the wifi signal between or near the router and desktop. I haven't installed any new programs recently either.

At the moment I've connected my desktop to my router via a network cable and everything is working fine again.

I've tried updating the drivers through windows, downloading drivers through the belkin website, uninstalling the card (in the device manager, not actually pulling out) and reinstalling it.

Now I'm wondering if the card has managed to break somehow. I can't understand what I could have done to break it or why it's suddenly and inexplicably stopped working.

I'd much appreciate any advice since I'm tearing out my hair at this point.

Thanks,

[merdat]

Try card in alternate PCI slot for a start . Also, you've nothing 'electrical' nearby- tv radio etc that could be affecting your wifi signal ( but that should affect your ipod also if used from the desktop location You seem to have covered most of the ground as far as software is concerned so it might be an idea to try and 'borrow' another wifi card to try and isolate your problem.

[joel_spencer]

On a side note, the card isn't actually supported by belkin under win 7 as far as I can make out (both times I checked - once for customer and just now) the card drivers list only up to vista and xp on som e models.