jouno53

Hello everyone, today my dad received a copy of Windows 7 Professional, from pre-order, and installed it on his Dell XPS 630.

Specs: Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2-800, 500GB Hard Drive, Nvidia 8800GT.

Unfortunately, there are no Windows 7 drivers, let alone 64 bit drivers, on the linksys site, and upon calling them they said they were "working on" Windows 7 drivers.

His computer is in the basement, and the router is upstairs, so he purchased the very popular Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI adapter a while back, which worked fine in Vista 32 bit. The problem we are having now is that even though the CD drivers installed properly and allow the XPS to connect to our router and home network, the internet connection and local network connection is incredibly slow. Download speeds are effectively cut in half, and loading web pages seems like it is running on a 56k modem.

Does anyone who has this same PCI adapter and Windows 7 64 bit know of any current driver workarounds? This is turning into a serious problem.

Thanks, I hope this helps others too as it seems like a popular card.

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Garionberg

I remember reading a while back that you can use Ralink (woops) drivers as a workaround for this problem. I'm not sure exactly which one but I'll see if I can find it.

I'm currently using this adapter on Windows 7 x64 with no issues using the default Win7 drivers.

Edit: For Ralink, not Realtek

The Ralink RT61+RT2500 drivers apparently.

This article discusses installing the wmp54g drivers for Win7 x64.

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jouno53

Thank you for the hasty reply.

I read the article earlier, but if you notice that is for the beta. I double checked and that exact adapter driver is not available in the list.

I saw on MS's "compatible wireless adapters" site that this card is in fact compatible with windows 7, but I have no idea why the internet speed would be so slow as compared to normal. Right now the stock drivers are being used, so essentially I let Windows install the drivers.

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Garionberg

These drivers?

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jouno53

External mirror doesn't work

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Garionberg

Doh! I see your issue!

Interesting...clean install or upgrade?

Actually I see RT2500 drivers on the RAlink website, do you think those will work?

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jouno53

Clean Install from Vista 32 to 7 64 bit. Everything is fine speed wise (better overall, by far). Initially 7 did not have drivers for the adapter, so we used the CD, connected to the network, then uninstalled the cd drivers and let 7 find the right ones. It installed right away and connected to the network, but it's incredibly slow!

I know "slow" is subjective and a more annoying description of a problem (I know because I work for my local school district's IT department), but in our case it is incredibly obvious. I did an ipconfig /release and /renew which had no effect.

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jouno53

**FIXED!!**
http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82889

This fix did it. I'm using the drivers suggested on that site and the internet connection is much, much faster. I hope this can help someone else too!

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Garionberg

Congrats jouno53! I'm glad to see you got it working!

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