Asus PCE-N53 halfway working

[thepinkanator95]

So I got an Asus PCE-N53 wireless card and it doesn't seem to be working all the way. I loaded the drivers from the CD and I decided to just use the wireless menu in Windows 8 but it doesn't want to connect to the network. It can see the SSIDs of the networks but when I try and connect it will load and then it will say "Cannot connect". It won't even ask me for a password or anything and when I ran the troubleshooter it said anything from "Wi-Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration" to "The default gateway is not available". I set my router to DHCP and all my other devices can connect, but I can't connect to the 2.4GHz or 5GHz connection with that adapter. Help?

 

[Tradesman1]

Do you have the latest drivers?

 

[thepinkanator95]

Do you have the latest drivers?

Yes I have downloaded and reloaded drivers both from the CD and the Asus site 3 times and I reloaded Windows.

 

[Tradesman1]

Don't know, will try and think of something

 

[Mikhail Podosinnikov]

Here is the solution. it helped me to get 300 mb/s with ASUS PCE N53.

1. Download latest ASUS driver for PCE N53 (for me it was ASUS PCE-N53 driver 5.0.35.0 for windows 8.1 64 bit). It's a ZIP file. Extract it. There will be 5 files. Make a back up copy to another folde in case of something goes wrong.
2. One of this 5 files is RaCoInst.dat. Open it with Windows Note editor. Now you have to find a line like this "RUS=10001000". For me it was RUS as I'm in Russia. Find your own country and change "10001000" parameter to "11101110". For me it became like this "RUS=11101110". It activates 802.11n. Save the file and lose it.
3. Go to Windows Devce Manager, find your wifi adapter and dele it. Refresf the list. Windows will find a new device. Now you have to install the driver for this device. Do not let Windows make it automaticaly, manually find the folder with the file we eddited (RaCoInst.dat).
4.Reboot your PC (maybe it's not neccesary).
5. Got to windows RUN, type in "regedit". Find the following string:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\XXXX
XXXX in this line is a sub folder. I have 7 of them: 0000, 0001......0007. For me it was 0000 folder. Click on it and you'll see a lot of parameters on the right side. Now find and edit the folowing lines:

AdhocNMode - 1 (to activate "N" in Ad-Hoc mode)
AllowBW40InBGBand - 1 (to turn 40MHz on)
AutoReconnect - 1 (autoreconnect)
CountryRegion - 1 (allows wifi chanels from 1 to 13)
SmartScan - 1 (multimedia/gaming mode)
TXBurst - 1 (speeds up the connection)
and finally
WirelessMode - 5 (for me it was 5. Try which is better for you)
0: legacy 11b/g mixed
1: legacy 11B only
2: legacy 11A only
3: legacy 11a/b/g mixed
4: legacy 11G only
5: 11ABGN mixed
6: 11N only
7: 11GN mixed
8: 11AN mixed
9: 11BGN mixed
10: 11AGN mixed

I also changed these lines:
CountryTxPwr - I set it to 20
CountryTxPwr5G - this HAS TO BE "1118181e"


6. Reboot your pc. Connect to wifi AP.

Good luck.

 

[thepinkanator95]

Here is the solution. it helped me to get 300 mb/s with ASUS PCE N53.

1. Download latest ASUS driver for PCE N53 (for me it was ASUS PCE-N53 driver 5.0.35.0 for windows 8.1 64 bit). It's a ZIP file. Extract it. There will be 5 files. Make a back up copy to another folde in case of something goes wrong.
2. One of this 5 files is RaCoInst.dat. Open it with Windows Note editor. Now you have to find a line like this "RUS=10001000". For me it was RUS as I'm in Russia. Find your own country and change "10001000" parameter to "11101110". For me it became like this "RUS=11101110". It activates 802.11n. Save the file and lose it.
3. Go to Windows Devce Manager, find your wifi adapter and dele it. Refresf the list. Windows will find a new device. Now you have to install the driver for this device. Do not let Windows make it automaticaly, manually find the folder with the file we eddited (RaCoInst.dat).
4.Reboot your PC (maybe it's not neccesary).
5. Got to windows RUN, type in "regedit". Find the following string:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\XXXX
XXXX in this line is a sub folder. I have 7 of them: 0000, 0001......0007. For me it was 0000 folder. Click on it and you'll see a lot of parameters on the right side. Now find and edit the folowing lines:

AdhocNMode - 1 (to activate "N" in Ad-Hoc mode)
AllowBW40InBGBand - 1 (to turn 40MHz on)
AutoReconnect - 1 (autoreconnect)
CountryRegion - 1 (allows wifi chanels from 1 to 13)
SmartScan - 1 (multimedia/gaming mode)
TXBurst - 1 (speeds up the connection)
and finally
WirelessMode - 5 (for me it was 5. Try which is better for you)
0: legacy 11b/g mixed
1: legacy 11B only
2: legacy 11A only
3: legacy 11a/b/g mixed
4: legacy 11G only
5: 11ABGN mixed
6: 11N only
7: 11GN mixed
8: 11AN mixed
9: 11BGN mixed
10: 11AGN mixed

I also changed these lines:
CountryTxPwr - I set it to 20
CountryTxPwr5G - this HAS TO BE "1118181e"


6. Reboot your pc. Connect to wifi AP.

Good luck.

Can you explain what all of this does? I am a computer guy and will be able to understand what you're changing.

 

[Mikhail Podosinnikov]

My pc runs under Win 8.1. I've installed the latest ASUS driver for this WiFi adapter and the connection speed droped to 54 mb/s. I've searched for solution to increase the speed. Here is the solution.The wifi "N" protocol is blocked in the driver. I don't know if it depends on the region (Country). I explained here how to unlock it.

As for Your situation - set Your router to b or g protocol first. Try to connect. I think it's a driver problem. It does not allow You to connect to N protocol networks.

 

[thepinkanator95]

My pc runs under Win 8.1. I've installed the latest ASUS driver for this WiFi adapter and the connection speed droped to 54 mb/s. I've searched for solution to increase the speed. Here is the solution.The wifi "N" protocol is blocked in the driver. I don't know if it depends on the region (Country). I explained here how to unlock it.

As for Your situation - set Your router to b or g protocol first. Try to connect. I think it's a driver problem. It does not allow You to connect to N protocol networks.

I don't have an option here to download a the separate files manually. It only has an executable for me to use and my antivirus won't let me open it.

 

[thepinkanator95]

So I opened the executable despite Norton's warnings, and my computer is completely dead. I will probably have to reload Windows from scratch if I can't get this restore to work. Thanks Asus.

 

[Mikhail Podosinnikov]

http://www.asus.com/ru/supportonly/PCEN53/#support_Download

Look here. It's a Russian one. Just select Your OS in the middle of the sreen and download a rar file

What do You mean saying that Your computer is completely dead??? BSOD?

 

[thepinkanator95]

http://www.asus.com/ru/supportonly/PCEN53/#support_Download

Look here. It's a Russian one. Just select Your OS in the middle of the sreen and download a rar file

What do You mean saying that Your computer is completely dead??? BSOD?

Yes meaning BSOD. Luckily I had a backup and was able to restore without losing files. Will look at the .rar and see how that works out.

 

[thepinkanator95]

I fixed the problem. I changed the channel from the default 36 to 161. It now runs lightening fast.