Comments on: Atheros AR5007EG – Bad WLAN performance

By: Grace (Is incredibly annoyed with everything Atheros)

Grace (Is incredibly annoyed with everything Atheros) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:02:26 +0000

I have an acer aspire zg5 netbook running 32 bit XP service pack 3 with the Atheros AR5007EG adaptor, and it has sudenly stopped working. I’ve had the netbook for about three years. The connection cuts out, and when I turn it off at the small switch on the side of my computer, I have to press the switch four times or so to get it to turn back on again. We have another netbook, same model, hardware, and adaptor, and neither will connect to our new linksys WAG120N wireless router, yet our new HP laptop (I don’t know what brand the adaptor is) and our Compaq laptop (dubbed “The Brick”, due to the fact we purchased it new in 2001), with a DSE usb wireless adaptor, both connect fine. Any ideas on how to fix this? I’ve spent the last month doing everything but send it back to the manufacturer. >:(

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:52:53 +0000

I was having a weak signal problem with my Atheros 5007 EG wireless adapter, so i went to device manager and uninstalled the device without removing the driver, then rebooted. Upon reboot the device reinstalled and the signal had gone back up.

By: Colin C

Colin C — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:14:35 +0000

I found the same problem with a friends laptop an a 20mg line only speed was gettin was not even 1mg and upload really slow, took me ages to figure it out, in the end it was the bios what needs updating and the updated driver.

By: razz

razz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:53:49 +0000

HI guys I’ve toshiba L40 and I want to update for the BIOS
is there anything we can do to update manual(without added to windows)

By: Mttz

Mttz — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:38:57 +0000

I’ve updated my drivers,
but i need to say.. this are not the drivers for 5007ag,
this are drivers for the 5006!
atheros.cz has the most recent and best drivers for the 5007ag (or any other atheros card)

By: BNFree

BNFree — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:00:34 +0000

Hey,

I found one driver in Drivers folder athr.sys but I couldn’t see any others???????

Later

By: BNFree

BNFree — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:53:17 +0000

HEy klnswp. . . .you said. . .”Uninstalling past updates and preventing future ones was my solution. great speeds and no loss of connectiviy since. sorry to piece mail that one. . .”

OK but how does one “uninstall past updates”???

As my Wifi was great until MS decided to update and than sic since! NO MORE auto updates from silly billy bunch!

Thanks for a reply!

By: Wireless network adapter problem(s) - The PuritanBoard

Wireless network adapter problem(s) - The PuritanBoard — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:01:34 +0000

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By: DeathOwl

DeathOwl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:37:13 +0000

Seems u guys got problem on AR5007EG card, somehow, i got no problem using this card to connect to internet, and my download speed up to 180kbps, the laptop that i use is F80s from Asus.

Here i provide some of the links to get your card function normally :
http://www.atheros.cz/
http://www.drivershq.com/Drivers/VistaDevices/Acer-Foxconn-Wireless-AR5007EG-Lan-Driver-7.2/5903/Drivers.aspx
http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5007EG&system=1

Recently, Microsoft have some updates on AR5007EG card :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921583

By: madara

madara — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:33:29 +0000

i bought an acer aspire 4715Z with wLan atheros AR5007EG card, but the performance was very good for long ours (usually i used it 12 ours a day), and i’m the one who can still connect to the access point when no one in my class can detect the access point…