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Poll Results: Would you sign up to purchase an Atheros WiFi card?

 
  • 69% (107)
    Yes, and I can afford
  • 15% (24)
    No, or I cannot be held accountable when the time comes
  • 14% (23)
    No, But I would like to someday.
154 Total Votes  
post #201 of 442
1/5/06 at 7:24pm
Aw, I've waited a week and I still don't have mine ..
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post #202 of 442
1/5/06 at 7:59pm
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Firewall can have an impact, depending on what ur doing and its settings.

DHCP is working. IP is valid and within my restricted range.
I use a cable modem. I dangle a linksys wap (a second generation B wireless) from my primary router.

The atheros wep setup is strange and might be advanced for the router.
I'll give that a whirl. Thanks for the finger point.
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Well, I upgraded the firmware in my linkshit, and its official.
Using this card has made my erections longer, firmer, and shiny.
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post #203 of 442
1/5/06 at 8:35pm
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Originally Posted by mbudwick
Well, I upgraded the firmware in my linkshit, and its official.
Using this card has made my erections longer, firmer, and shiny.
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post #204 of 442
1/5/06 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by snooz
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post #205 of 442
1/7/06 at 12:14am
I ordered mine yesterday (paypal) got the conformation from paypal but haven't heard for the seller. Anyone try this card in a Sony Vaio FS series notebook? If so, any issues?

Thanks for the info on this card

cup
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post #206 of 442
1/7/06 at 12:15am
u aint supposed to sell on these threads...
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post #207 of 442
1/7/06 at 1:03am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by hunterelite
u aint supposed to sell on these threads...

Well there mr. 5 posts, I am not selling them nor do I know the guy.
But what I do know is that everyone here sure as hell appreciates the work I put into it.

This thread is about saving money. Take this one down and you might as well take down the coupon threads too.

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post #208 of 442
1/7/06 at 1:05am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by cupcars
I ordered mine yesterday (paypal) got the conformation from paypal but haven't heard for the seller. Anyone try this card in a Sony Vaio FS series notebook? If so, any issues?

Thanks for the info on this card

cup

whats your email? are you sure you sent payment yesterday? did you send of fwd of the confirmation email?
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post #209 of 442
1/7/06 at 1:28am
I got both of mine a few days ago and have 1 installed in my 9300. I removed the intel drivers, software, shutdown, replaced the wifi card, rebooted and installed the new drivers without running the CD.. ie Windows hardware and selected the correct directory on the CD. Ran perfect on my old router at 54Mbps.


However I then went out and got the new d-link gamers router and n setting that up chose WPA2. Since the windows client doesn't support this I removed the XS driver, ran the CD and selected to install both the driver and software client (which I like a lot). Doing so installed the wrong driver of course. So I removed the X driver and reinstalled the XS driver. Now of course it says "Atheros AR5006XS Wireless Network Adapter #2" and the system has crashed a number of times while transfering data from 1 system to another on the LAN.

Anyone else run into this or any other problems?
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post #210 of 442
1/7/06 at 2:24am
Thread Starter 
best idea is to go thru all the work of uninstalling the client. and removing any atheros hardware thats in your hardware profile, restart
then reinstall client and driver.
Then after install go back into hardware profiles, click update driver on the atheros card and then select the XS driver.
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post #211 of 442
1/7/06 at 12:16pm
hxxp://support.microsoft.com/?id=893357 enables wpa2 in windows.
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post #212 of 442
1/7/06 at 1:06pm
got the card, works GREAT! only problem was "log on to windows" dealy and i disabled that somehow. Somehow.
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post #213 of 442
1/7/06 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by Ice_Cold
Just done a few battery benchmark's...
So much for Power Saving features..
Yeah I have to agree here. I haven't seen where this card really saves any power. I liked reading the following and wondered where they get the percentage:

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post #214 of 442
1/7/06 at 3:15pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Adrenolin
Yeah I have to agree here. I haven't seen where this card really saves any power. I liked reading the following and wondered where they get the percentage:

my guess its like any manufacturer.

The New Corvette gets you 120% gas savings.


(over a model T)

its all about Marketing. But I still believe that it does save some in comparison just for the fact that single chips are designed to be more efficent over others.
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post #215 of 442
1/7/06 at 3:26pm
Yeah I agree its mostly marketing. I'm plugged in 95% of the time so its not a huge factor for me anyways.
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post #216 of 442
1/7/06 at 4:28pm
How do you boost the power to 100MW ?
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post #217 of 442
1/7/06 at 5:14pm
Its been talked about here a number of times. I think the overall outcome was that the 9300 mainboard simply will not provide 100MW to the card regardless of what you set it at. I noticed that when I was using the Atheros Client Utility it was set to use 100 but didn't. Only around 35. Doesn't really matter to me since I've now got 2 additional OPEN wifi routers listed and I'm FINALLY getting a stable connection at 108Mbps for a change to my own router.
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post #218 of 442
1/8/06 at 2:41am
Hey I just got this new 5006XS card... its ok... no drops, good speed.. although i am having real trouble finding up to date drivers for this card. if anyone knows where i can download the new drivers(links in this thread are dead to sparklan.com), post! I am hoping they will make me feel better about my purchase...
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post #219 of 442
1/8/06 at 2:56am
Just install the drivers on the CD in the D:\Ndis5x directory. Also download WindowsXP-KB893357-v2-x86-ENU.exe from Microsoft's website which is a hotfix to add WPA2 to the Windows wifi client.

I installed the Atheros client 3 times and it kept crashing my system. Once removed and the MS patch was installed everything has been Bang-On stable!
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post #220 of 442
1/8/06 at 3:12am
Thread Starter 
Can you explain what WPA2 is? I am not that familiar with it.
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