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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Network and WIreless Adapters => DWA-160 => Topic started by: richard92683 on July 04, 2008, 03:12:53 PM
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Hello all,
I 've just got my new DWA-160 yesterday,and I have all settings the same requirement as the Moderator post (For 300 Mbps),the router is DGL-4500.But I only see the connection speed is 270 Mbps.Is this normal or something else do I need to do to fix that?Thanks
DWA-160 driver date 1/30/2008 ,Version 2.1.5.0
DLG-4500 Firmware version :1.02 2007/11/13
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Did you follow this post:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=1236.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=1236.0)
270 Mbps is not bad.. It could be wireless environment preventing you from reaching 300 Mbps such as mirrors, thick walls, cordless phones etc..
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Yes I did follow those instruction,5GHz ,AES WPA2....ect .In my area there are no wireless N around,my 5.8 Ghz phone is far away.The adapter and router only about 4 feets apart .Thanks
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FWIW my DWA-652 almost always had a connect rate of 300Mb while my DWA-160 tops out at 270Mb.
Now where's that 2.4GHz/5GHz a/b/g/n cardbus adapter D-Link?! Too many issues with USB not fitting various laptops!!!
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You're lucky. I'm one floor down from my DGL-4500, and my DWA-160(A1) connects at 40Mbps/12% Signal. Yay for the $$ I spent on this stuff.
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qtmod,
Have you tried the following steps listed in an FAQ from our support site?
http://us.dlink.com/support/faq/?prod_id=3061&question=300bps (http://us.dlink.com/support/faq/?prod_id=3061&question=300bps)
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Yes, please see my response in another post:
I bought three DWA-160 (A1) adapters a few months ago to connect to my DGL-4500 @5ghz.
This replaced my old Belkin N1 router and Belkin wireless-N cards.
My main PC runs Vista x64 and is one floor down from the router in a small house. I used to get "Good" to "Very Good" connections with my old Belkin setup.
Now with the new Dlink setup, I get "Poor" and "Fair" connections. According to the router, the best connection I've seen is "40Mbps, 12% Signal". I get disconnected randomly at least a dozen times a day or so. I am not in a populated area with a lot of wireless traffic.
Yes, my router is set to "Auto 20/40 Mhz". Yes my Router is set to fixed "802.11n Only". In the adapter preferences, I disabled 2.4ghz completely, and am running only 802.11n on the 5ghz section.
Right after I bought my DWA-160, I noticed there was a new "Rev-B" folder on the Dlink FTP site. Now I come here and see many others with issues with the A1 models. A1 and Rev-B model chipsets are made by different manufacturers...sounds fishy to me.
Can we RMA the A1 models for Rev-B models? What is up with quietly replacing faulty hardware with a completely different chipset?
I am running WPA2/AES.
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qtmod,
What wireless utility are you using? D-Link or the windows wireless utility. I find using the Windows utility much better than the D-Link utility and I'm trying to get this issue fixed through our PM group. If you're using the D-Link utility, try uninstalling the software and re-install the latest drivers ONLY without running the setup file.
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Thanks for the reply.
I am only running the drivers (dwa160_drivers_110.zip). I didn't install the Dlink utility. Installed manually through Device Manager.
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I tried installing the drivers without the utility but still have weak performance.
qtmod, did you every fix your problems? or did the RMA work?
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My issue is not entirely the fault of the DWA-160, but the ****tastic wireless performance of my DGL-4500(v1) router.
Never got my issue resolved. I contacted D-Link support who told me that I shouldn't be using 5Ghz because its not meant to be used indoors (?!?!!?). 2.5ghz connections are even slower. After the fiasco that is the DGL-4500 router, I have pretty much given up. I'm told a new beta firmware for the router fixes things, but am hesitant to upgrade. First off, the firmwares have been in "beta" for a loooong time. Second, right on the download page it states that upgrading to the beta firmware voids your warranty.
Anyway, I'm going in another direction here. No I never resolved my wireless issues with the DWA-160...but the wireless performance of the DGL-4500 router isn't helping it either.
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A recent discovery. Setting my router (DIR-625) to only accept b and g clients allowed my DWA-160 to perform at acceptable 11g speeds. ~10mbps.
It seems that the dwa-160 doesn't like n operation...
When I set my router to accept b,g, and n clients but forced the adapter to only operate in g mode only at 2.4GHz, i still had horrible performance.
I would blame the d-link drivers for this type of problem.
btw, my DIR-625 router has the latest firmware 1.09 and performs at 11n speed with laptop integrated adaptors allowing me to rule out the router as the problem... i hope. :-\