- Jul 5, 2010
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So my father is having technical issues and he comes to me. Normally, I can handle most tasks fine for him, but I am absolutely stumped by this.
We recently moved and he doesn't have direct access to cable internet.
***He is running Windows XP SP3 with the wireless connection utility.
I offered him the opportunity to use wireless despite its full use of the internet speed.
We purchased a Cisco USB Wireless Adaptor and it was horribly unreliable even though it was only about 50 feet from the router..
(1 bar signal with 5 minutes to load an email. Spontaneously disconnects too.)
So, we change our mind and go to another product. The D-Link DWA-552 Xtreme-N which I have and use and works great. It installs with the newest drivers and locates a network but does not attempt connecting... Regardless of any clicks or anything.
(Feels like a compatibility issue there, but it says it is supposed to be compatible.)
How can we make this work???
My father needs the best connection he can get on this network and it can hardly recognize it.
I don't know if it is because the walls are plaster in the new house, the new modem/router combo is crappy, the adapters are crappy, or my father is just the master of finding unsolvable problems?
What do you all think?
~Crusader
We recently moved and he doesn't have direct access to cable internet.
***He is running Windows XP SP3 with the wireless connection utility.
I offered him the opportunity to use wireless despite its full use of the internet speed.
We purchased a Cisco USB Wireless Adaptor and it was horribly unreliable even though it was only about 50 feet from the router..
(1 bar signal with 5 minutes to load an email. Spontaneously disconnects too.)
So, we change our mind and go to another product. The D-Link DWA-552 Xtreme-N which I have and use and works great. It installs with the newest drivers and locates a network but does not attempt connecting... Regardless of any clicks or anything.
(Feels like a compatibility issue there, but it says it is supposed to be compatible.)
How can we make this work???
My father needs the best connection he can get on this network and it can hardly recognize it.
I don't know if it is because the walls are plaster in the new house, the new modem/router combo is crappy, the adapters are crappy, or my father is just the master of finding unsolvable problems?
What do you all think?
~Crusader
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