Atheros AR928x Wireless Network Adapter

I have Atheros AR928x Wireless Network Adapter. Whenever I start to play games, the internet begins to lag for like 3 seconds with intense lag. Does anyone know what the problem is?

 

Without more information (what games you are playing, if those are online games or not, your computer specs, the router you have, other connections on your local network, etc), we can't tell you what might be causing the problem.

 

Oh sorry, well when I play online games such as Counterstrike, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, I experience those lag intervals.

My computer has the following specs:
Sony VGN-SR129E/B
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26G
2GB DDR2
250GB 5400rpm drive
Mobile Intel PM45 Express Chipset
Atheros AR928x Wireless Network Adapter

I connect to my DI-624 (d-link) router. However, I also experience this problem on other networks as well.

 

I have the same problem! I play the same games and experience the same type of delayed lag spikes. Although my game freezes for 2-5 seconds, if i spam a button the online game acts as if it received the button-presses during the 2-5 secs and my game 'catches-up'. During this 'catch-up' the game goes into super fastforward.

My specs are:
ASUS M50 Series M50Vm-X1
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400(2.26GHz)
4GB Memory
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS (512 meg)
Atheros AR928x Wireless Network Adapter.

I attempted to auto-detect an updated driver for the wireless adapter through the internet, but none were found.

Please help!

 

Hmm, I think I might know what you are talking about.

I was playing ROSE Online today, and I noticed that randomly, I'd end up pausing and then game would have to catch up.... I think I have the same problem.

How very odd. Perhaps it's time to contact Atheros and ask for a solution.

 

Alright, I just bought a Vaio SR which comes with AR928x and I found out there are newer drivers out than the pre-installed ones but it does not detect under Windows update or the online driver search. I then downloaded it manually from http://www.atheros.cz and installed it manually. Try it, might help.

 

Did it help you with the pausing in games?

If it didn't, then it wouldn't be worth the effort, really. Heh.

How weird that the drivers don't show up on Windows Update or anything...

 

I did help somewhat. I haven't played any online games with the machine yet so I can't help you on that. My connection did drop a few times previously to "Limited or No connectivity". After I installed the newest driver from that site, I have yet to experience one of those drops.

 

Oh, well, I am not having a dropping connectivity problem... Just the lag.

I seem to always have 4-5 bars on any router I connect to, which is nice.

How weird though. Hm, I guess I can try... but I dunno how successful it'll be. XP

 

Yeah go for it. It doesn't hurt having the newest drivers. The drivers doesn't always detect via Windows Update. I even updated my Intel graphic drivers manually and those didn't get detect via Windows Update.

 

I am having trouble installing the update for the atheros ar928x on vista. I am on a vaio fw. can someone help me with step by step instructions. sorry im not good with this stuff. I have downloaded the update but cant figure out how to install it manually.

 

I just installed it on my FW no problem. Here is what I did:

1) Download the file, extract it to your desktop.

2) Open the device manager (it's in the control panel under system)

3) Find the Atheros device and delete it, check the "delete drivers" box.

4) Click the "scan new hardware" button on top.

5) After windows finds the wireless card, it will ask for drivers. Point it to the extracted folder on your desktop.

6) Enjoy.

As a further note, I was only connecting to my Trendnet TEW-633GR with 802.11g before I updated to this driver. Now it says 802.11ng.

Sounds like progress to me.

 

I would say 99% of the time windows doesn't detect a new driver

I always go to the vendor web site to download the latest driver.

 

Is this an outdated wireless card? The driver dates back to 03 if I ain't mistaken. Why did they put this on my Sony SR? Range is real lousy, perhaps I should just change the wireless adapter on my notebook.

 

I am having the same problem, most noticeably when I play games like World of Warcraft. I get a 3 second lag spike pretty often. Why arent there any drivers on the actual asus website or atheros.com for this network adapter?

Anyone know if a switch to a USB wireless adapter would get rid of the problem all together?

Laptop: Asus M50Vm series

oh yeah.. problem doesn't exist when I plug in laptop with an Ethernet cord straight to router.

 

Oh right, the Card isn't that old. I haven't seen it in any older laptops than the ones that came out in July of this year. I don't know that the drivers date back that far, since the AR928x does have Draft-N, which didn't exist back in 2003, if I am not mistaken.

ucibob- there's a site that has them, like atheros.cx or something (Google search: Atheros AR928x Drivers). The update helped somewhat, but I'm going to keep checking for new ones when I can. Of course, I noticed that my laptop will lag on games itself too (probably hard drive).

 

I've got the same lag problem. For me its worse, I've experienced 5-7 sec lag spikes.

F8VA-B1
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
4G DDR2 667MHz
32bit Vista
Artheros AR928x

Do we know if this is a hardware or driver problem yet? Or is it vista? Maybe it would help if I go 64bit?

 

I downloaded the 32bit vista drivers dated in may and it seemed to have fixed my problem. My only concern now is if there's a possibility that I compromised my computers safety since I don't really know if atheros.cz is a reliable site
Anyone know if the files off this site are legit?

 

Get newer drivers from the forums at http://www.laptopvideo2go.com.

 

I'm having problems with range with this card as well. I just bought an Asus M50VM-B1 and I can only get a signal when I'm standing right next to the router. If I move five feet from it, I drop down to 2-3 bars, and if I'm in the next room, I can't pick up a signal at all. I'm 99.99% certain it's not the router, because two floors down from us they can pick up a healthy signal, and my other computer with an Intel card has no problems either.

The card is updated to the latest drivers, and the router has the most recent firmware. I'm going to try going somewhere with public wireless soon to see if I can get a signal there. I'm also installing Ubuntu to see if this could just be a Vista problem (which wouldn't surprise me in the least). If anyone else has gotten this card working right, please let me know.

 

Give the modded driver at LV2go a go.
I had a similar issue at a friends place, no signal in the next room
With modded driver full 5 bars.

Beware these atheros drivers are really weird and have different affects on different setups.

 

My Asus G71G-A2 has this card but I can't get it to run in N mode --- anyone else have this problem on a new unit and what can be done to fix it?

 

You are running your router in AES and WPA2 ?
Also your router is set to broadcast in 40Mhz (or 20/40Mhz Auto) ?

 

Not sure - I went with the Belkin + which supposedly should allow for N plus G connectivity. I understood that mixed modes would make the N speeds lower, but it seemed to only broadcast in G.

I ended up returning the router but would def. get another one if i can figure out whether it's a router setting or the laptop's network card.