Still showing as Unknown Device.

Running in this mode it did not leave an icon on the desktop but the missing .dll issue went away.

Did this. No option to check or uncheck everything

Went to 'Network Adapters' and there is a huge list of manufacturers. There is a heading for Microsoft and one for Microsoft Corporation. But I cannot find anything titled WLAN USB. The closest to that is WAN with several choices for drivers but none that say WAN USB.

Under Microsoft

Microsoft 6to4 adapter

USB RNDIS ADAPTER

USB RNDIS6 ADAPTER

WAN MINIPORT (IKEV2, IP, IPV6, L2TP, NETBEUI DIALOUT, NETWORK MONITOR, PPPOE, PPPTP, SSSTP)

Under  WLAN is only one driver - WLAN USB Wireless LAN Stick

There are several drivers for 802.11 a/b/g/n under different manufacturers but I don't know who made this thing. Under Realtek there is one for 802.11b which I tried but it removed 'unknown device' and replaced it with what I guess should be there for the Realtek driver and said there was no device.

Thanks. I had a feeling I would have to get a new one. The router and the towers all came through Timewarner. I might call them and tell them to upgrade it all, it's just they are such a bunch of bozos. They trashed a laptop a few years ago tring to install a wireless card on it and they fried the registry. I hate when they come out to the house to monkey with anything involving the computers.

I'll follow what you said as far as what to buy and let you know how it works out.

Just got off the phone with TW and thery are coming out tomorrow with the lastest Netgear adapters. I'm gonna insist they update the router as well.

I spent an hour on the phone talked to 6 people and was told to bring my shit downtown to the office and they will see if they have what I need in stock.

After explaining that they really do not understand my frustration, I wanted to know why I had to make a trip downtown on a maybe. I asked why I was paying all this money and they couldn't check and see if they had it and email me or call me.

I had to explain again that they still did not understand my frustration and was finally connected to someone in my home office (which they said was impossible to do) to get it worked out.

I hear AT&T has come into our area and have been hearing a LOT of good things about their cable and internet service...among them is that it's hell of a lot better and cheaper. Time to make a change.

It's okay. TW is replacing the adapters.

The they are going to replace the router.

Then I am going to demand a reduction in billing because we couldn't connect since Christmas.

I am so sick of this shit. Sooner or later I am gonna be on the 11 oclock news. They will of course exagerate the number of hostages and my time in therapy..but my real friends will stick up for me. You won't let them lable me a psycho. Right?

Right?

Sigh. I'm tired Doc. All kinds of issues since the kidney stones. The nerve blocks  have wore off again...earlier than ever before. I'm a wreck and this crap didn't help my overall outlook. I really need something to go right soon. Maybe I'll buy a lotto ticket and see if I can get lucky.

Thanks for your help on this Gary! How many cups of coffee or beers do I owe you now?

Po...if you bitch load enough they will upgrade you to the Turbo connection for free if you don't already have it.

You and I have the same Time Warner supplier in Columbia...they upgraded me when I complained that they couldn't supply my house with the bandwidth that they advertise for my area. Now I'm at 15kbps for the price of 5kbps.

Still here... Florida, I go for work and sailing every now and then.

restraining order...

So...Time Warner gets here at 8 am. He says 'I hear you have internet trouble."

I look at him and once again explain everything. I tell him he is supposed to install two new adapters and a new router.

He then tells me he only has one adapter and will have to go 'meet another tech somewhere to get the other stuff' and that he wasn't told all of this. The ticket he got just says 'internet trouble'.

It's now 9:13 and he isn't back yet.

And I think my anti-psychotics are wearing off.

The voices can't be far behind.

11:16am - I now have the new router and 2 new adapters.

The tech couldn't get WIndows 7 to let the wireless network through so I had to show him. That's funny.

I ran a test on my internet speed with Time Warners/Roadrunner test and then one on Speedtest.net.

As far as what I am supposed to have...I don't know. This is all the info I could find on what I should have.

3. How fast is Time Warner Cable?

Time Warner Cable offers 5 Mbps Download and up to 512 Kbps upload.

and

Road Runner offers five tiers of service: Road Runner Lite, Road Runner Basic, Road Runner Standard with Power Boost, Road Runner Turbo with Power Boost, and Road Runner Extreme with Power Boost. Road Runner data rates vary by level of service and area. The averages for these services are:

* Lite - 768 Kbps/128 Kbps *

Basic - 1.5 Mbps/384 Kbps *

Standard with Power Boost - 7 Mbps/512 Kbps (bursts: 10 Mbps/512 Kbps)

* Turbo with Power Boost - 15 Mbps/756 Kbps (bursts: 25 Mbps/1 Mbps)

* Extreme - 30 Mbps/5 Mbps (bursts: 50 Mbps/5 Mbps)

These are the speedtest results.

I don't know how to tell if the speed is where it should be.

Thanks again for all the help with this.

Cool. As long as I am getting what I payed for.

Just got done hooking up the boys PC and installing Firefox and antivirus and getting rid of bloatware.

I'm insanely jealous.

He has WIndows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

A new 26" HDTV I have hooked it up to.

A new PS3 hooked up to the HDTV and the PC

I built the desk myslef. Instead of some bulky thing that takes up what little room he has, I put in a 6'ft counter, shelves. He has all his hardware on the shelves leaving the desk wide open. His room looks so much bigger and really kinda crisp and clean now. I'm gonna have to get a pic to post after I finish it this weekend.

His PC is so freakin fast as well.

I told him all he needs now is a nice leather swivel chair with a matching footrest and he's golden.

Yrag, you still lurking around?

I got the dang thing running and wireless connected. Then I went and intsalled WOW.

It keeps crashing.

I looked around and a lot of folks have the same issue with 7 and 64 bit. There's also a lot of bad advice.

Two things I caught that made sense 'to me' were this..

WOW and the two expansion packs and all patches need to all go into the same folder c:\\ users\public\games - however, the last pack (lich King) does not give me that option, though it appears to go there. One of the patches goes into the program folder.

The other was trouble shooting the compatability. It suggested XP w/service pack 3. It ran for about an hour on this when it crashed. I tried Vista SP1 and it crashed in 5 minutes.

Any ideas? The boy is going through WOW withdraw and I feel terrible. I can usually figure things out but this has me stumped.