Just installed the DWA-130 yesterday and had a problem retaining the connection when installing my thumb drive on any USB port. Work around I found was to safely remove the adapter, then plug in the thumb drive and then, after that is working, reconnect the adapter and it comes right up. This is Windows 7 and version E1 (5.10). The connection is currently to a G network...I will replace the access points at a later date...but even at G speeds, it is giving me better connectivity except for this glitch I just mentioned.
Second thing I noticed today in the behavior. I installed the drivers that came with the DWA-130 and if you look at the blinking amber light, it always blinks at the same steady speed, like a heartbeat. Like I said, the access is great. When checking Windows Updates, I noticed that there was an optional update listed:
Realtek Semiconductor Corp. - Network - D-Link DWA-130 Wireless N USB Adapter Download size: 284 KB
I normally shy away from driver updates, but since I was having some problems, I decided to try it. After the install and reboot, I noticed that the amber light that had been blinking at such a leisurely speed, was now blinking very fast and at varying speeds. Even when it didn't appear that anything was going on, it was still blinking very fast all the time. It looked like it was really showing activity instead of acting like a heartbeat, but I was concerned that this was a problem. There are no updates on the D-Link site for my revision. Perhaps this update was really for one of the earlier versions? So I rolled back the update using system restore. So what is going on?
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