What the hell... ASUS wireless card causing performance issues

Gusterr

Gusterr

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Hi all,

I recently made the switch from hardwired internet to wireless internet with an Asus Wireless PCI Express card. Things seemed to being going swell, but in the last week especially, I've noticed performance issues when running my wireless connection. Most noticeably, my sound (be it from Youtube, iTunes... anything) stutters and falters, as if being injected with crappy dubstep.

So to figure out the problem, I started playing Led Zeppelin IV with the wireless card enabled. Stuttering and faltering. Then I disabled it and went off-line. Perfect sound, no issues. Enabled it again, more stuttering and faltering.

What the heck is going on here? Why is a wireless card affecting my PC in such a manner? Anyone have any ideas, or possible solutions?

Thanks in advance
 
Gusterr said:
Hi all,

I recently made the switch from hardwired internet to wireless internet with an Asus Wireless PCI Express card. Things seemed to being going swell, but in the last week especially, I've noticed performance issues when running my wireless connection. Most noticeably, my sound (be it from Youtube, iTunes... anything) stutters and falters, as if being injected with crappy dubstep.

So to figure out the problem, I started playing Led Zeppelin IV with the wireless card enabled. Stuttering and faltering. Then I disabled it and went off-line. Perfect sound, no issues. Enabled it again, more stuttering and faltering.

What the heck is going on here? Why is a wireless card affecting my PC in such a manner? Anyone have any ideas, or possible solutions?

Thanks in advance
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First thing to try. If you are using WEP security, stop it, use WPA2 and you will notice speed increase right out of the gate.
If a no go for your problem, then it sounds like a driver problem. The flacky slow downs and other issues come from programs and drivers taking memory which is already in use and so windows is continually re-arranging it to try and keep both the conflicting applications running. Since it seems most evident when playing music, then try different players and search for newest drivers for your WiFi device and make sure you are using the right one for the OS you are using. Also, check in your device manager to see if there is any warnings happening.

Good Luck.
 
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