hi guys, i was wondering if anyone could shed any light on this... My family pc is a packard bell, Vista Home Premium SP2 1gb ram X1850 Radeon Pro gfx Only shows local network connection. When my Windows 7 laptop connects to it is fine. I've tried two different wireless adapters with upto date drivers.. The router is a Home Hub 2.0, but the Netgear before it didn't work either Anything remotly helpfull wanted Cheers, Fuus
I found that by letting windows wireless drivers take over instead of using the cards ones it all sorts itself out even though it's only XP supported, done it the same way with Vista as well. also I would recommend upgrading to Vista SP3, there was a hell of a lot of bug fixes in it for networks.
wireless cards are deffo supported because they worked about a week ago :wallbang: and i have also tried letting vista take over but still nothing.. EDIT: I cant upgrade to SP3 cause no internet x( REEDIT: SP3 doesn't exist..
Sorry my fault, was thinking about XP drivers. Although some skeptics say that all W7 is , is Vista SP3
homehubs are notorious for not letting you get a proper connection, especially homehub 2.0 change the wireless settings to a/b/g instead of a/b/g/n, and select wpa instead of wpa/wpa2 as the encryption type.
Before you do that.. you need to quadruple your RAM (4GB). At that level Vista should run MUCH MUCH MUCH better (not Win7 better, but close).
vista and netgear early days had issues, you had to fart about with firmware upgrades because of the way the vista network stack was changed. most netgear stuff with firmware upgrades work fine now.
Ok so get at least 2GB of RAM, and Win7... it will at least be usable. Else, I doubt you'll get a better experience with Win7 in term of performance.. granted that is not the topic of this conversation. But, it's just want to reduce another problem (performance).
