As the title says, I'm experiencing difficulties with this product in the form of connection drops and/or slow downs. I'm on the verge of RMA'ing this product however I have second thoughts whenever it starts to perform well.
So I'll start from the beginning:
1. Downloaded and installed latest drivers on Asus' site.
2. Installed the wifi card into the pci-e slot.
3. Drivers downloaded were horrid and did not work at all, uninstalled, then installed defaults from the CD
4. Managed to connect to my wireless home connection with success, being able to browse the internet and game, however I received seemingly random disconnects and slowdowns.
5. Got fed up, and contacted Asus support, they informed me of some steps to take to see if the card is faulty. Upon receiving this information, I downloaded and installed realteks driver RTL8192CE-VA4... I never downloaded the 802.11b/g/n driver for OmniPeek tool (support WinXP/Vista/Win7 OmniPeek v6.0 and later version), as I assumed this wasn't necessary. However I did use the "Windows driver auto installation program." I also updated my bios, internet security and os drivers, and tried deactivating my internet security to see if this was the problem, it wasn't. I even attempted a new pci-e slot, upon which my computer did not boot, or somehow did not get video signal to the monitor. (I could have easily plugged it into a wrong spot, but w/e). After these steps, the card works a bit better, but I have still been getting drops or slow downs.
6. I now have the option to RMA this product, however I believe I've noticed a pattern in my disconnections, and this leads me to believe that it is not the cards fault. Roughly around the time one of my family members gets home, my connection seems to either slow down or drop out all together. After this continuously happens, I finally put two and two together. It seems as though whenever this person uses the internet, facebook, online banking ect, my internet drops or slows down, and cannot find the SSID. The computer that he uses would be considered the "host" computer, as the router is directly connected to it.
So, my question is; Is it possible for this computer to be hogging the bandwidth to prevent my ability to surf the web, game, or in the rare instance, cause my internet to fully disconnect from my wireless home network, and possibly even not detect my wireless home network SSID for a brief amount of time. This is weird, as it has no problem detecting select other ones, that I am not able to connect to.
Any opinions?
P.S. I've also tried turning off the option in the driver settings that prevents the computer from turning off the card to save power.
P.P.S. I've also tried connecting to the internet on my phone while this person is using the internet on his computer. It works fine.
So I'll start from the beginning:
1. Downloaded and installed latest drivers on Asus' site.
2. Installed the wifi card into the pci-e slot.
3. Drivers downloaded were horrid and did not work at all, uninstalled, then installed defaults from the CD
4. Managed to connect to my wireless home connection with success, being able to browse the internet and game, however I received seemingly random disconnects and slowdowns.
5. Got fed up, and contacted Asus support, they informed me of some steps to take to see if the card is faulty. Upon receiving this information, I downloaded and installed realteks driver RTL8192CE-VA4... I never downloaded the 802.11b/g/n driver for OmniPeek tool (support WinXP/Vista/Win7 OmniPeek v6.0 and later version), as I assumed this wasn't necessary. However I did use the "Windows driver auto installation program." I also updated my bios, internet security and os drivers, and tried deactivating my internet security to see if this was the problem, it wasn't. I even attempted a new pci-e slot, upon which my computer did not boot, or somehow did not get video signal to the monitor. (I could have easily plugged it into a wrong spot, but w/e). After these steps, the card works a bit better, but I have still been getting drops or slow downs.
6. I now have the option to RMA this product, however I believe I've noticed a pattern in my disconnections, and this leads me to believe that it is not the cards fault. Roughly around the time one of my family members gets home, my connection seems to either slow down or drop out all together. After this continuously happens, I finally put two and two together. It seems as though whenever this person uses the internet, facebook, online banking ect, my internet drops or slows down, and cannot find the SSID. The computer that he uses would be considered the "host" computer, as the router is directly connected to it.
So, my question is; Is it possible for this computer to be hogging the bandwidth to prevent my ability to surf the web, game, or in the rare instance, cause my internet to fully disconnect from my wireless home network, and possibly even not detect my wireless home network SSID for a brief amount of time. This is weird, as it has no problem detecting select other ones, that I am not able to connect to.
Any opinions?
P.S. I've also tried turning off the option in the driver settings that prevents the computer from turning off the card to save power.
P.P.S. I've also tried connecting to the internet on my phone while this person is using the internet on his computer. It works fine.
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