Comments on: Vista Update http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/05/16/vista-update/ One nerd's struggle against the beast that is technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: nerd. http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/05/16/vista-update/#comment-19052 nerd. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:13:06 +0000 http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/05/16/vista-update/#comment-19052 Jeremiah, things aren't going too bad. I had a spot of bother when I tried to change the "channel" (frequency) of my network on the router. The Linksys coudldn't find it, but I came to the conclusion that's because I was using channel 13 which is usable in Europe but not the USA (for example) and the Linksys seems to be limited to channels 1-11 which the US uses. Eventually got it to pick up the network again ok though - that'll be a lesson to me not to f**k about with my network settings. Jeremiah, things aren’t going too bad. I had a spot of bother when I tried to change the “channel” (frequency) of my network on the router. The Linksys coudldn’t find it, but I came to the conclusion that’s because I was using channel 13 which is usable in Europe but not the USA (for example) and the Linksys seems to be limited to channels 1-11 which the US uses.

Eventually got it to pick up the network again ok though - that’ll be a lesson to me not to f**k about with my network settings.

]]> By: Jeremiah http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/05/16/vista-update/#comment-19051 Jeremiah Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:52:06 +0000 http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/05/16/vista-update/#comment-19051 Just thought I'd say you have my sympathy with reference to the disgrace that is the Netgear WG311V3. We've got them on both PC's. When I was running XP I'd get constant drops to 1mbps, & I used to blame my Linksys modem, but I suspect otherwise now. I'm now running Vista 32 bit, & every 2nd day I have to reinstall that crappy Netgear software because it loses the drivers. I tried that software on XP & it was shit then, but at least I could just pull the driver off the disc with XP's Add Hardware Wizard & leave the rest well away from my PC where it belongs. Vista won't accept the driver from the disc that came with because it's for XP, & you can't get a standalone driver for Vista, you have to have the full nasty retarded package from Netgears awful website. I will be replacing this as soon as I can, but unfortunately for me the only shop open at this time of day is PC World, & guess what they sell, the Netgear WG311GE, & the WPN311GE...think I'll pass, & suffer until I can get to a proper computer shop, I don't like that number or manufacturer anymore. Hope everything is still going okay with the Linksys network ard because that's what route I'm thinking of taking. Just thought I’d say you have my sympathy with reference to the disgrace that is the Netgear WG311V3. We’ve got them on both PC’s. When I was running XP I’d get constant drops to 1mbps, & I used to blame my Linksys modem, but I suspect otherwise now. I’m now running Vista 32 bit, & every 2nd day I have to reinstall that crappy Netgear software because it loses the drivers. I tried that software on XP & it was shit then, but at least I could just pull the driver off the disc with XP’s Add Hardware Wizard & leave the rest well away from my PC where it belongs. Vista won’t accept the driver from the disc that came with because it’s for XP, & you can’t get a standalone driver for Vista, you have to have the full nasty retarded package from Netgears awful website. I will be replacing this as soon as I can, but unfortunately for me the only shop open at this time of day is PC World, & guess what they sell, the Netgear WG311GE, & the WPN311GE…think I’ll pass, & suffer until I can get to a proper computer shop, I don’t like that number or manufacturer anymore. Hope everything is still going okay with the Linksys network ard because that’s what route I’m thinking of taking.

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