Asus P5K-E WiFi cutting out

[Chris_huh]

I've got the Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP Edition motherboard which has the Realtek RTL8187L wifi chip in it. Most of the time it works fine getting a very good signal but occasionally it won't be able to find any connections at all (even from the access point on the shelf above it). The only way i can get it to find any again is to disable and renable it, but sometimes it doesn't disable and i have to restart the pc.
I have had a look and i think i've got the latest drivers. Tried installing the new drivers from the realtek site but it wouldn't install properly.

Anyone know what might be going on.

 

[Ian]

I've had this with my wifi card (a realtek one) when I first moved to Vista (is that what you are using?) - at first I had to change the security settings to get it to work (I went from WPA to WEP & MAC address lock on the router). It then worked fine, but the latest driver update seemed to mean I could use WPA without a problem after all.

 

[Chris_huh]

Yes i'm using vista, and WPA. I will have a look at the new drivers. When i tried to intall the ones i downloaded from the realtek site the other day vista didn't recognise them as being for the wifi card.
thanks

Also, this might be completely separate: My brother has a similar problem, but he is able to see the networks and scan for them, but it just disconnects from our network, and wont reconnect for a while (i dont think he needs to renable it). He's using XP and Ubuntu with a usb network card (the same thing was happening with a belkin pci too though). He is the farthest from the router but when he is connected it is at 75%.

 

[Chris_huh]

I was able to install the latest driver (version 6.1293.518.2007 date: 18/05/2007) but it still cut out last night and i had to restart it. Is that the driver you are using?

 

[Ian]

I've got a different card so I can't compare it to that, but what I would suggest trying to switch from WPA and see if that improves things? (I would enable MAC address locks on the router to make up for this fact).