m17xr2, killer 1103 windows 8 problems

Hi all i just put windows 8 pro from my dreamspark acount onto my 17xr2, and am now finding issues with my bigfoot killer 1103 card, it is not as fast as before, on speed tests im getting less than my m11x with the standard dell card in it, and also it is showing conection speed of 72.2mbps which is a bit strange, i have put on the bigfoot killer drivers and software for win 7, and tried the standard drivers that come with windows but still the same issue, have also done a re install of windows, any ideas as this is driving me mad

Thanks !

 

As far as I know, Big Foot Networks don't have drivers for Windows 8 yet, and they probably won't have them available until the Windows 8 official release. The wireless card should work with the drivers that come with windows, if it's not working properly, the best thing you can do is wait for the official drivers, I know it's hard but Windows release is in less than 2 months so Big Foot Networks shouldn't take long after that to update the drivers.

 

Ok thanks a lot hopefully its just a driver issue was working perfectly on win 7, but overall i do like windows 8 on this machine, no other issues i have found yet