Wireless Pre-N driver causes o/s skipping

I have a DLink 625 Pre-N router and after installing the driver for the
Dlink DWA142 USB Rangebooster N adapter, I experience regular
"skipping" in audio, programs and gameplay. It is as if the
operating system is stopping for a split second, then running for a
split second, then stopping, etc for 3-5 seconds. After that,
everything is normal, then is happens very regularly, maybe once every
1-2 minutes. This happens while any program is running. I know it's
the driver for this adapter because I also have a AipPlus Extreme G USB
adapter that works flawlessly. I've gone back to that until I can
figure out what's wrong with this N driver. The router I have is also
a Rangebooster N Router (DIR625). My system is an Athlon 2900 with 1
Gig Ram/ATI Radeon 9550 graphic card. Windows XP SP2 with all security
and o/s updates.

I tested this setup on three different systems, the one above, an Asus
motherboard with an Athlon 64 Dual Core CPU/ Geoforce 7950 512meg video
card, and a Biostar motherboard with an Intel Celeron chip and an ATI
All in Wonder Graphics card. This happened on all systems.

After 6 hours with DLink tech support level one and two, they gave up
and told me to send an official request for a tech to investigate the
problem. Wonderful, there is no precedent.

I bought a Belkin Pre-N router and adapter card to see if it was the
software and experienced similar problems with that also. Slightly
longer between skips, maybe 1/2 sec instead of split second skipping.

So now I think it's just the wireless software in general that is
causing the problem and it seems it's provided by Atheros in both
Belkin and DLink adapters.

Has anyone else experienced this? I would have to believe it is an
issue other places. I think the odds of this happening on three
different (and clean-no other software installed) systems is not likely.

Could be the USB adapter itself also is that the correct one for the
router????
I have a DIR625 with a DWA642 installed in a laptop and a DWA542 in the
desktop and experience no lagging like you describe...
Pre N stuff is very flakey at the present and one should make sure that all
the equipment should be the same and be running the same chip...there are
different chips being used by the same manufacture..
I am thinking the range booster is not really compatable with the router....

"JB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a DLink 625 Pre-N router and after installing the driver for the
> Dlink DWA142 USB Rangebooster N adapter, I experience regular
> &quot;skipping&quot; in audio, programs and gameplay. It is as if the
> operating system is stopping for a split second, then running for a
> split second, then stopping, etc for 3-5 seconds. After that,
> everything is normal, then is happens very regularly, maybe once every
> 1-2 minutes. This happens while any program is running. I know it's
> the driver for this adapter because I also have a AipPlus Extreme G USB
> adapter that works flawlessly. I've gone back to that until I can
> figure out what's wrong with this N driver. The router I have is also
> a Rangebooster N Router (DIR625). My system is an Athlon 2900 with 1
> Gig Ram/ATI Radeon 9550 graphic card. Windows XP SP2 with all security
> and o/s updates.
>
> I tested this setup on three different systems, the one above, an Asus
> motherboard with an Athlon 64 Dual Core CPU/ Geoforce 7950 512meg video
> card, and a Biostar motherboard with an Intel Celeron chip and an ATI
> All in Wonder Graphics card. This happened on all systems.
>
> After 6 hours with DLink tech support level one and two, they gave up
> and told me to send an official request for a tech to investigate the
> problem. Wonderful, there is no precedent.
>
> I bought a Belkin Pre-N router and adapter card to see if it was the
> software and experienced similar problems with that also. Slightly
> longer between skips, maybe 1/2 sec instead of split second skipping.
>
> So now I think it's just the wireless software in general that is
> causing the problem and it seems it's provided by Atheros in both
> Belkin and DLink adapters.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? I would have to believe it is an
> issue other places. I think the odds of this happening on three
> different (and clean-no other software installed) systems is not likely.
>