Problems loading driver for external antenna

[Richard Atcheson]

On Monday 20 December 2010 09:50:20 John Everard wrote:
> I have managed to download a couple of pages but it is still so slow that
> Firefox usually times out before it can display a page.   I am typing
> using the external antenna on a little Windows machine which sits next to
> my main computer.  I had it up and working within moments, and it makes a
> difference to the signal received.  I don't have a wired connection that I
> can try out.  There are quite a few wireless signals around so I suppose
> it might just be a channel clash - but if it were then I would expect this
> to affect my Windows computer too, but it doesn't seem to. I have moved
> the antenna and computer around the room but this seems to make only a
> marginal difference.  I cannot move the base station. Might you be able
> please to suggest what I should try next?

John, I had a similar problem and it turned out to be my internal and external 
NICs running at the same time.  It really confused my laptop.  My problem was 
solved by disabling the onboard wifi.   Which brings up the question, did you 
ever get into your bios to disable teh onboard wifi?   

Also, what is the breed of your computer?  If Dell, usually F2 during boot 
gets you into the bios and look for wireless disabling.  Of course the 
ultimate way to disable an onboard nic is to simply remove it from the 
computer.  

Richard