ASUS UX32VD wifi problem

Hi there,

I just got my second ASUS UX32VD yesterday. I had returned the first one as I could not get the wifi to work properly: at home, I was getting a "lightspeed" 250kbits/s on my 100 Mbits fiber access and when I tested it at work, it worked better but was still twice slower as my thinkpad at the same place and throughput was very unstable. I though it was a hardware problem so I returned it but I have exactly the same issue with the second machine!

What I tried in details:
- update ASUS firmware (as advised by the ASUS Live Update utility)
- update wifi driver found on ASUS support site
- install a clean new windows 7 install without all ASUS bloatwares and just installing the wifi driver
...But nothing solved.

Any idea on how to solve my issue? I'm about to return the second machine...

Thanks in advance for your help!
Samuel

 

Hi all,

I finally found the source of the problem : the intel wifi card (Centrino 6235) seems to be incompatible with my netgear CG3100L cable modem when communicating with wifi N. When I disable wifi N in the wifi card driver parameters and block it to wifi G, everything works fine.

Any idea on how to solve the problem ? Any updated driver available ?

Regards
Samuel

 

Hi, I'm having a similar problem. How did you access the wifi card driver parameters to block the wifi card to G? Thanks.

 

change wi fi card, huh ?

 

Hi there,

No need to change the wifi parameter, I finally found a fix!
My router was configured with WEP encryption. Intel support advised me to change the configuration to WPA2 as wifi N is theoritically not designed to work with Wifi N (although some cards work). Changing the encryption mode to WPA-AES solved the problem for me.

If not on your side, here is how to disable wifi N in your wifi card configuration :
Right click on my computer > Choose properties > select device manager > Under network card double click intel centrino 6235 > Advanced tab > Mode 802.11n > select disable and apply

Regards
Samuel

 

WEP has been cracked years ago and it is almost akin to having no security at all. On top of that, if you want wireless N set everything to WPA2-AES, safer and faster. That ia a setting that needs to be changed at te router by the way.

 

After reading your findings, i replaced my Netgear DGN1000 with a DGN2200M i had lying around, and everything works flawlessly now. Weird issue but luckily sorted now.

Thanx