Broadcom doesn't make Windows drivers as far as I can tell. At least for BCM43526 they don't. I checked here to try to find a similar device with the same chipset offering a driver in hopes that it would install, but I couldn't get any of them to work.
This is what I'm dealing with.
A lot of it is the Hotel Wifi but not all of it. I'm pretty sure packet loss and dropouts are from my adapter.
7% packet loss and constant .6-1 second dropouts. Packet loss ranges from 0 to 12%. Dozens of times at many hours of the day and night. I'm on the fourth floor so there shouldn't be interference from anything but other hotel routers. Dropouts range from .6 to 1 second sometimes 1 transient outage during the test, sometimes 10. It's all "random" as far as I can tell. The uplink buffer ranges from 1100ms to 1300ms, average of 1200ms. Downlink buffer between none and 240ms, average 120ms. Ping is all over the place. When it's working right it's at 18-32ms, but can go up to 60ms "if it feels like it" My ping to the router is 1-4ms, spiking to 6ms.
Tech support has done everything they can do on the software side, messing with router configuration, rebooting etc. with little to no improvement. Ethernet is down, they've been unable to contact the hotel tech who is supposed to fix it for 2 weeks. I'm stuck here for another week and when I go back home I'm stuck in a room without Ethernet as well.
New info! Packet loss is NOT between me and the router. I pinged it 100 times and got between 1-6ms 2ms average. Not exactly the modern >1-1ms but hey it's hotel Wireless G which was low end when they got it in 2008.
I read a lot of reports about packet loss and to a lesser extent high uplink buffer with AT&T's Motorola NVG510 which is surprisingly 5 years old and still by far the most common.
The hotel is using AT&T and likes to neglect technology. That's probably what they have.
Here's me pinging google.com and forgetting about it for 20 minutes. Forgot CMD cuts some off at the beginning, filled in the command.
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Ping statistics for 173.194.123.32:
Packets: Sent = 1335, Received = 1241, Lost = 94 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 37ms, Maximum = 649ms, Average = 58ms
Control-C
The random disconnects are still my main solvable issue though.
I really need a replacement driver.
EDIT: Hopefully a new driver will have some positive effect on the uplink buffer as well, although I do believe the majority of the issue is between the hotel modem and AT&T. I had a similar wired issue at my house a few years ago and it turned out to be bad coaxial cabling, bad splitters, and bad connection to the pole. Charter wasn't to blame at all, they fixed it as soon as they knew it was the issue.
After the modem the problem falls on the ISPs shoulders to fix. Tech support is now aware of all this and is getting in touch with AT&T to try and solve the issues. They're also hopefully going to communicate "This is what happens when you're cheap and don't trust your techs!"
Bump - Dropouts are still present and bad as ever.
I've lost the connection anywhere from 5 to 16+ times a day. ... For the past two weeks.
On average it's probably around 8 times per day. So basically I've had to reset my connection 112 around times since I've been here. Feels like more than that though.
Please help me.
My connection drops when I am uploading or downloading at the maximum bandwidth in this hotel which is around 13/0.8 (yes I'm still in the hotel...). I usually get a lot of packet loss to the router when using high amounts of bandwidth too. Within 60 seconds I might experience 3-20% packet loss - if it doesn't disconnect. It usually disconnects instantaneously upon sudden load, upload more so. Taking a speed test can actually cause the connection to drop!
When this happens, windows shows that I am connected for up to a few minutes, then the adapter disables and I CANNOT RE ENABLE IT through software, I must physically unplug and replug the device and the connection is reestablished instantly.
Tech support told me it could be an issue with the POE or power over ethernet system the router is hooked up with. A ticket was opened, but they never get anything done. They've been "trying" to fix the ethernet for over a month and the hotel has been trying to fix the internet issues with them for A YEAR now.
We have at least been able to verify that everything in the configuration is correct now and not causing an issue. At first there was some messed up NAT time server setting that caused the router to get 100ms spikes every 15 seconds and set the time to 1979!! AND a seperate issue that cuased it to reboot every 30-60 minutes which was part of the problem at first. In addition to those issues, almost every router out of the 13 here were on channel 6. Whoever set this up must have literally been ******ed. Thankfully tech support agreed with me and was able to fix all these issues!
I am using the Acrylic Wi-Fi and PingPlotter programs to monitor packet loss and wireless information. There is no interference. They switched me to channel 11 which has one other access point at -90dbm which I can see (I can see 6 of the 13 access points the hotel has). There is an issue with numerous switches which they are "working on" (yet have made 0 progress when I check the ticket). But that shouldn't be causing this specific issue.
The connection does "pause" though when I use the microwave... I think I'm going to get rid of it before it gets rid of me! haha
Does ANYONE have any ideas whatsoever as to what could be causing the adapter to disable itself and require a hard reset though? (Sometimes it needs two). It's as if the adapter is crashing and locking up.
ALFA AWUS036ACH gets 25-30 dbi better signal, no more dropouts ever, I can see access points much further away and connect to many more. Even better is the jittery 1-130ms ping to the access point is now a SOLID 0-1ms 100% of the time. It's excellent. Best Wifi AC adaptor on the planet (that you can afford). Buy it from rokland on ebay or elsewhere for $50. It's well worth it.
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