Mark,
Are you absolutely sure that this adapter supports WPA ? I have the same
one and the documentation does not indicate it supports WPA, only WEP.
This has also been confirmed verbally by Linksys tech support. Right now
I'm waiting on written confirmation. Also, I was unable to enter a WPA key.
The WZC utility, as well as the WLAN utility from Linksys did not allow a
WPA key, only a 64 or 128 bit WEP key.
Also, I think that the device itself (either the hardware or firmware) has
to support WPA in order for the driver to have any affect. If the hardware
doesn't support WPA, then I suspect you're not gaining anything from the
driver you downloaded.
And finally, as I think about this some more, what driver did you download ?
I know there's a MS patch that's needed for WPA to work with XP, but its for
hardware that's WPA compliant.
David...
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> Subject says it all, really. I picked up one of these at Best Buy,
> installed it, and gave myself (and my brother) a four-hour headache trying
> to get WPA working with it (which was finally accomplished), only to note
> that the typical throughput is about 100-120 KBytes/second. Signal
> strength fluctuates between three and five bars, and it also seems to
> think I'm getting 24-54 Mb/s. I sure the heck am not. Stupid me for
> mapping a drive wirelessly; half the time, files sent to the wireless PC
> are completely lost because the bandwidth just wasn't good enough. This
> is totally unacceptable.
>
> Possibilities: WPA? It works, no doubt about that. I had to install a
> driver obtained from Microsoft's homepage. The router is definitely using
> WPA and the configuration menus for the Linksys WUSB54G definitely seem to
> be telling me that it's using WPA. Could this protection be causing the
> dramatically slow transfer rates? (If so, it's time to dump this
adapter.)
>
> USB? It's not 2.0. So no 54Mb/s for me. But this does present some
> confusion. 11Mb/s is still whatever.. ~1300 Kbytes/second, right? I just
> don't see how the 100K/s I'm getting can be confused with 1300K/s.
> They're not even close. Plus, what does this mean about the rates the
> Linksys status menu tells me I'm getting? 24-54 Mb/s. That range
> shouldn't even be possible, I'd thought.
>
> Okay, enough of that. I've used a Linksys product now and I have a very
> bad taste in my mouth. The snippets I've read from the closest thing I
> could find to reviews have been suggesting that Linksys is crap and
> D-Link is gold. Is this accurate? I'm going to probably be trading my
> current device in for something else. At this stage, I'm thinking D-Link
> is the way to go. Perhaps I'm wrong. I do reckon I'll go ahead and
> remove the soundcard so I can put a wireless card in its place. That way,
> even if I get bit by the Linksys bottleneck again, I can still look
> forward to (by the current math) about 500KB/s, which is adequate for my
> needs.
>
> Any help appreciated!
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