Re: WG511V2 disconnection and dropped out problem Hi Bob!
The WGR614v2 supports WPA with the latest firmware and it should use
TKIP. The question is how good this works, as far as I remember I had
problems with WPA on that router so I had to use WEP.
BTW I have found out the following things about the WG511v2:
1. As I told you at home I use it with WPA-PSK and I have a stable
connection only when the Netgear utility is NOT installed, I have to
use driver only + Windows wireless config.
2. At our company we use WEP because there is a wireless camera with no
WPA. There I had to install the Netgear utility, otherwise the
connection was dropped every few minutes with driver only + windows.
3. Netgear support told me that they could reproduce my problem with
the bad installer which does not like localized WinXP versions and they
will try to fix this problem. I wonder why I am the first discovering /
reporting such a problem. There must be thousands WG511v2 sold
worldwide every day... It's a shame how Netgear can provide such crap
software for these cards.
Ok, I will try your trick with the b-only mode + WPA-PSK cause I'm at
home now, I don't have the patience to uninstall that Netgear utility
once again - it really sucks! But I don't think the problem is the
router, maybe it's the card. I mean I use the thing with my Linksys
router and the problems are the same.
Regards,
Anguel |