want of sensitivity of NIC on Asus laptop

[myfathersson]

The NIC on My Asus M70 seems to have almost no sensitivity in Vista.
Even where I am 15 feet away from my router I can only get a one or at
the most two bar EXCEPTIONALLY slow connection with this computer. I
DO have the latest Atheros 928x driver installed. If I boot into
Linux, the connection seems 4-5 bar OK! Needless to say while this is
th eonly Vista computer I have ever used, no other computer whether
Windows or Mac has this total lack of sensitivity.

Asus says that this is an inherent limitation of the OS which they say
takes up 20% of the resources to start with, - and this is why I dont
seem to have any sensitivity. To me this seems like a load of hogwash?
I cant see any connection between resources and NIC sensitivity? But I
cant figure out what on earth is draining all the sensitivity from the
NIC?

Does anyone have any ideas on this one please? (I moping I am in the
right group)

 

[Tigger]

myfathersson writted thus:

The NIC on My Asus M70 seems to have almost no sensitivity in Vista.
Even where I am 15 feet away from my router I can only get a one or at
the most two bar EXCEPTIONALLY slow connection with this computer. I DO
have the latest Atheros 928x driver installed. If I boot into Linux,
the connection seems 4-5 bar OK! Needless to say while this is th eonly
Vista computer I have ever used, no other computer whether Windows or
Mac has this total lack of sensitivity.

Asus says that this is an inherent limitation of the OS which they say
takes up 20% of the resources to start with, - and this is why I dont
seem to have any sensitivity. To me this seems like a load of hogwash? I
cant see any connection between resources and NIC sensitivity? But I
cant figure out what on earth is draining all the sensitivity from the
NIC?

Does anyone have any ideas on this one please? (I moping I am in the
right group)

For what it's worth, I have a Toshiba laptop with XP, Vista and Linux
Ubuntu installed. The WiFi is best on Vista, then ok on XP and acceptable
on Linux...
Blaming the OS is silly IMO, it's probably a setting awry somewhere
(don't ask me what though).

 

[Fred Manitoba]

Asus is crap.
Get HP next time.

 

[myfathersson]

Asus is crap.
Get HP next time.

well the cop out represented by the support certainly seemed crap.
Plus if they were telling me that Vista is crap, they should have
replaced it with something which isnt

Meanwhile I am trying to figure out whether this system is crap or if
it IS some setting