USB Wireless Adapter

tedsui

Can one of you please recommend a good USB Wireless Adapter I can buy to connect my PC to my BT Home Hub. I am running Vista and have been using a D-Link adapter for a week but it keeps cutting out on the signal and I cannot upgrade it to work with Vista now I've changed from XP. Thank you.

Edinburghlass_2

I recently got one by Zoom from my local Tesco, it was £14.95 and easy to install and connect with.

geoffshome

Try a Belkin thay are very good

tedsui

Hi geoffshome,
Was there a particular belkin you would recommend, they seem to vary so much in price?

macman

tedsui wrote: »

Can one of you please recommend a good USB Wireless Adapter I can buy to connect my PC to my BT Home Hub. I am running Vista and have been using a D-Link adapter for a week but it keeps cutting out on the signal and I cannot upgrade it to work with Vista now I've changed from XP. Thank you.

Can you not just upgrade the drivers to the Vista ones from the D-Link website?
If it's cutting out that is not necessarily a problem at the adapter end, changing it may not solve the problem.

tedsui

Hi macman
Tried that yesterday, downloaded vista drivers to pen drive on my laptop from D link site, then copied it to program files on my new PC. Seemed to work for a while then kept stopping. My signal is good on the home hub so I guessed it must be the USB adapter at fault. The D link is about 3 or 4 years old and I have never used it before, only the router it came with.

macman

Then I suggest you buy the adapter that BT sell/recommend for your HomeHub. In theory any USB adapter is compatible, but in life it doesn't seem to work that way. If you buy a BT supported adapter then at least you can ensure that if it doesn't work then BT tech support will assist you.
PS: what encryption are you using on the HH-a 4 year old adapter probably does not support WPA, which is what you should be using on the HH?
Before you do that I would uninstall it in Device Manager, then reboot and let it find the best drivers which presumably will be the new Vista ones.
How far is the PC from your router? An intermittent conection indicates a weak signal being received, put it next to the router temporarily to see if the connection improves. If it does, then worth putting a USB extender cable on the adaptor to improve the signal. If it's tucked away on the rear USB port with the PC on the floor, then often the signal is muffled by the metal box of the PC itself.

tedsui

Thanks to macman for your suggestions. I went on eBay yesterday, located a very reasonable N rated USB adapter, bought it, arrived today, installed it, and up and running again. (No need to use the other half's laptop anymore, thank goodness Being a typist of many years I have problems with the flat keyboard!) Back up and running again now.