HWL2 Problem

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e1337is7

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Alright, I recently bought a new Wireless G USB card for my computer. This card is advertised as Professional and receives a better signal than my last card. One quite disturbing problem though, whenever I attempt to game, the card decides to stop working. Basically, the card loses signal, mayhaps power, whenever I game, however, If I were to minimize the game, the card instantly gains the signal. This is rather annoying and I have yet to solve the problem.

Here is what I know thus far:
Typically happens when the CPU is under stress. I have proven this because I ran PCMARK04 and the card stopped working during the test. I don't think this would be a power supply problem because it doesn't quite put my computer under the most strain.


Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
list you system specs including your power supply(name and wattage)

edit: i see its a usb card

have you tried going to device manager and turning off power savings for the usb port the card is plugged into, is anthing else plugged into that usb port other than the wireless card, you can even adjust the bandwidth of each port in device manager

ultimately it could be that the usb controller is failing on the mobo
 
Ok, PC Specs are:
Motherboard: Asus P4P800S-X
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.40 Ghz
GPU:Albatron nVidia Geforce 5700 FX
PSU: Allied 350 watt
Ram: 512 PC 3200 Corsair & 256 PC 2700 Corsair.
OS: Win XP SP2

And, it's a USB, Hawking Technologies HWL2.. But I have tested it in every USB port.
 
my fault, i was going by memory i thought you could adjust bandwidth, evidently not
 
Ah, ok. Well, I just tested AoE 3 (a typical game that makes the signal die on my card) with the USB power saving mode off. Still loses the signal..
 
This time, it got through the opening credits before dropping the signal. Makes it all the more confusing...
 
Its probably because the card is a Hawking. I have never heard anything good about Hawking nor ZyXel...I

Try selling that card and getting a Linksys, or D-Link or Belkin.I have a D-Link DWL-G510 and a Linksys and they both work great!

Also..I don't know if it applies to USB ones..because I have all PCI cards...maybe try updating the drivers..
 
Meh, well, I'd like to give this thing a chance-- a much greater signal than my previous linksys card. I have begun to suspect the software. This device comes with a ZD1211 program, but can use window's zero wireless setup thing as well. I'll compare results of both programs and see which works better.
 
Does anyone know where to get other wireless setup devices? Aside from this ZD and the Windows Zero configuration?
 
Thanks for your help. I'm going to throw in the towel and RMA this POS. Not worth the trouble or the loss of gaming time.
 
Actually, I figured the problem out. It actually makes sense-- I just happened to be downloading something and decided to start Civ IV up. Whilst starting it up i realized the signal hadn't died yet. Intrigued by the lack of signal being cut off, I continued playing. It worked for over 2 hours, without a single jump of the connection. Apparently the fix for this problem was to have the internet being used. Glad I didn't send it back.
 
I would definitely use the software that came with the wireless, and make sure you tell windows to not configure, there is a thing about windows trying to automatically use their own software, rather than let the wireless router's software run on its own....I believe it has to do with windows trying to get a DHCP or something, and it ends up messing up the connection. Good luck though, I have a Hawkings external antenna and love it, it has boosted my signal immincely...
 
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