- Oct 20, 2014
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I recently purchased a laptop from Asus with a Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN card built in. I am currently running Windows 8.1 64bit and am having a very unique problem with the card and/or it's driver.
On any WiFi network (I have tested with many different routers and providers) I noticed that I was experiencing very slow internet speeds, usually around 0.2~0.5 Mbps on networks that should be delivering much higher speeds (around 20 to 50 on the networks I tried). Note: I tested the networks with other laptops and received these higher speeds. I can also easily achieve higher speeds when plugged directly into the ethernet ports, though I know that uses a different card and driver all-together.
I have tried using many different driver versions including the most recent version release for my specific card, V5.0.46. This is where my problem gets interesting. I work with computers and hardware often and have never seen this sort of issue before: when I first install/reinstall/update the driver version to almost any driver version, the wireless works seemingly flawlessly, easily achieving speeds past 20 Mbps. After a while, however (let's say an hour or so), the wireless speeds recedes back down to it's excruciatingly slow 0.3~ Mbps. This has happened with all of the drivers I have tried, including the most recent versions of the driver V5.0.46 and V5.0.37.
Every time it happens, I check to make sure that the driver hasn't reverted to a different version and is still running the version that it it was just working on.
Could this be a problem with the wireless LAN card itself or is it just a driver issue?Does anyone have any suggestions for solving this problem? Has this issue ever been reported before? I've looked around on many forums and couldn't find anything similar
Thanks,
Chris
On any WiFi network (I have tested with many different routers and providers) I noticed that I was experiencing very slow internet speeds, usually around 0.2~0.5 Mbps on networks that should be delivering much higher speeds (around 20 to 50 on the networks I tried). Note: I tested the networks with other laptops and received these higher speeds. I can also easily achieve higher speeds when plugged directly into the ethernet ports, though I know that uses a different card and driver all-together.
I have tried using many different driver versions including the most recent version release for my specific card, V5.0.46. This is where my problem gets interesting. I work with computers and hardware often and have never seen this sort of issue before: when I first install/reinstall/update the driver version to almost any driver version, the wireless works seemingly flawlessly, easily achieving speeds past 20 Mbps. After a while, however (let's say an hour or so), the wireless speeds recedes back down to it's excruciatingly slow 0.3~ Mbps. This has happened with all of the drivers I have tried, including the most recent versions of the driver V5.0.46 and V5.0.37.
Every time it happens, I check to make sure that the driver hasn't reverted to a different version and is still running the version that it it was just working on.
Could this be a problem with the wireless LAN card itself or is it just a driver issue?Does anyone have any suggestions for solving this problem? Has this issue ever been reported before? I've looked around on many forums and couldn't find anything similar
Thanks,
Chris
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