I’ve been using the C54Ri Conceptronic Wireless 54mb/s PCI card for a while with Windows Vista now, while it isnt built for vista it does work as i used it for a few months without trouble. After an extended period however i got worse and worse connectivity (nothing was changed and i tried it with 2 wireless routers, same problem on both) where as soon as there was any traffic on the card, the connection would drop from 36-48 mb/s to anywhere between 1 and 11 mb/s. The problem is that if i turn the card off and let it rest for a while, then turn it on it runs fine for a few minutes before creating the connectivity problems. This to me sounds like an overheat, but i’ve never heard of a Wireless card overheating before. Should i assume its broken? The other problem i have been having with it that when i run the cards own utility it can connect to the networks, but no program or service can connect over it. In Windows XP you could turn Windows handling your wireless connections off, is there any way to do this in Vista?
Kind Regards,
Christopher Gregorian.
