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| Thread ID: 95020 | 2008-11-20 23:35:00 | I hate wireless | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 721739 | 2008-11-20 23:35:00 | Or it hates me. Set up a DWA-610 laptop wireless card yesterday. Dlink Modem/Router/Switch on main PC. Worked just fine, saw the network connected, great. Customer takes it home and no, it won't connect although it did see it. I went over just before and tried various: There was an unknown Nic controller showing in Device manager, so what, it was like that yesterday too. Anyway tracked down the obscure driver and installed it, made no difference to anything. Searched for, found and could not connect to network via WIndows WLAN. Went back to Dlink card and did it. Did this round and round for a while until eventually the Dlink card happoily connected. But why did it not in the first place? Firewall did not come up until the connect succeeded. Firewall was installed yesterday when it worked too. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 721740 | 2008-11-21 00:44:00 | I feel your pain. :) Adding a wifi printer/scanner/fax to an already overcrowded network provided some fun for me this morning. :banana |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 721741 | 2008-11-21 04:56:00 | I've found that to be a common fault with all dlink wireless products I have used. I've never had that much trouble with any other brand. | Greven (91) | ||
| 721742 | 2008-11-21 08:38:00 | I've found that to be a common fault with all dlink wireless products I have used. I've never had that much trouble with any other brand. Yep and they tend to die quite easily as well. Netgear make good cheap routers, Buffallo (resold in nz by Uniden) make really good mid range with openwrt support and you need to spend quite a few $$ to get a nice high power router. |
razzarphenix (2626) | ||
| 721743 | 2008-11-21 12:13:00 | Ive been buying el-cheapo Asus WL-520gC and WL-520gU routers lately.. the're quite nice running DD-WRT! :D Makes a real good cheap repeater-bridge at only $45 a pop ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 721744 | 2008-11-21 18:44:00 | I've found that to be a common fault with all dlink wireless products I have used. I've never had that much trouble with any other brand. Hmm. Well can't do much about what they had. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 721745 | 2008-11-21 22:49:00 | Of course you can, Point your finger at the pos and say that's your problem, would you like me to carry it to the rubbish bin for you? | Metla (12) | ||
| 721746 | 2008-11-21 23:06:00 | Of course you can, Point your finger at the pos and say that's your problem, would you like me to carry it to the rubbish bin for you? Well no, it was my fault. He came in wanting a new laptop. He already had one and a desktop. So I suggested doing a fresh install on the desktop, adding more ram to both and putting a wireless card in the existing laptop, instead. So he agreed. Turned out to be worse than I thought. His laptop is a Mitac and was bought as is 4 years ago overseas from a shop. God knows why the shop would wipe it and put an illegal copy of XP Pro on it then. And not provide any CDS, driver disk, recovery partitions, nothing. Which I discovered trying to add a service pack. And the desktop, well its much improved now. I should have removed the drive to copy his data off first but I didn't. I booted into safe mode and connected an external drive and copied it. Took 98 minutes. It was sooooo sloowwwww. Never mind I was busy discovering the horrors of the laptop at that stage. |
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