Asus PCE N53 working slowly

[Wrathstorm28]

In my most recent build I used an Asus PCE N53. It connects to the internet, but at a speed of 5 mbps, while a laptop or ipad sat next to it gets 17 or 18. I've tried reinstalling the Windows 8 (64 bit) drivers from Asus' website, as well as uninstalling the wireless card completely and reinstalling it. After losing a whole day to trying to get it to run properly, I'm at the end of my tether. Is there anything left to try or should I just change it out for something different?

All help is appreciated.

 

[lonewolf7]

It has something to do with router settings I hope, check it.

 

[Wrathstorm28]

It has something to do with router settings I hope, check it.

Is there anything in particular that I'm looking for? Everything else on the network is fine. I'm increasingly convinced that it has something to do with Windows 8 compatibility...

 

[lonewolf7]

I don't think its a compatibility issue with WIN 8. That NIC of yours is somewhat poor in performance. You can try a different NIC.

What is the band 2.4ghz or 5ghz ? Is it over SSID ?

 

[bnot]

Did you find the issue? I have a new PC with Windows 8 and a PCE-N53. And for this PC the wireless is terrible. All other devices in the house get full connection speed, this PC gets 0.3Mbps.

I too believe it may be Windows 8 compatability.

 

[asimozo]

Did you find the issue? I have a new PC with Windows 8 and a PCE-N53. And for this PC the wireless is terrible. All other devices in the house get full connection speed, this PC gets 0.3Mbps.

I too believe it may be Windows 8 compatability.

I have the same problem but I am using Win 7

 

[asimozo]

I don't think its a compatibility issue with WIN 8. That NIC of yours is somewhat poor in performance. You can try a different NIC.

What is the band 2.4ghz or 5ghz ? Is it over SSID ?

I have exactly the same problem, the card works but barely. All other devices are running really fast. I'm downloading at speeds as slow as 150kb/s. The difference is my build runs Win 7, can you help?

 

[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 delet it. Refresh 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.