Crewecut Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) D-Link RangeBooster N 650 Desktop Adapter DWA-547 looks very promising with no less than three antennas and boastfull comments from vendor´s website. So why am I only getting 54 Mbps???! In the settings it says 802.11b preamble long and short, don´t need to know exactly what the latter means, but I´d expect it to read 802.11n. Got D-Links 655 router running mix b,g,n (got two other pc´s running g-mode). Driver out of the box is 7.4.2.75 dated 17-01-2008, and I´m looking for a trusworthy source for an updated driver. Been around some annoying, pop-up mongering, redirect-you-a-couple-of-times-before-you-reach-the-actual-dl-websites. Latest driver I got is called atheros_ar5xxx_7.7.0.233_2k-xp (the dwa-547 is chipset 5000-range, right?), got it from station-drivers, comes in an executable package made by some Igor Pavlov. And that´s where I start to get paranoid, ´cause I don´t really know what I could be installing. Other older drivers I came across came as non-.exe files. I´ve been around Atheros´ website, I´m not knowledgeable enough to scope through their range of downloads and pick the right one. Plus I´ve read some ominous comments on Atheros´ abilities to produce proper drivers for their own products. Does anyone know a healthy driver that just may help my wi-fi card live up to it´s name? Any help would be much appreciated. (I´m using XP 32) Crewecut Edited May 2, 2009 by Crewecut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewecut Posted May 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 Seeing an add in my post, I did not post that link, suppose (hope) it´s auto-generated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewecut Posted May 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 K, found an Italian website, linked me to a driver version atheros_v7.6.1.184 found on mediafire. That bumped me up to 130Mbps! :) From the folder assigned to the installation I had to try different files all very similarly named, but eventually the miracle happened. Grazie Italia :) And now, as every other wannabe-geek, I want more! Will try to find ways to get closer to 300 Mbps. If any of you know a way please let me know (router is about 10 feet away from PC, not too thick concrete wall between, getting the two closer not possible). Crewe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewecut Posted May 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 And after a reboot it´s back down to 54 :) Are there any wi-fi cards other than D-link out there that´ll actually perform as promised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grey Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Mixed mode router side is your answer, as you have other wireless devices connecting using 802.11g then the DWA-547 will also only be able to connect using 802.11g. The DIR-655 is not able to use both 802.11g & 802.11n at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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