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Time Capsule and new windows computer

noobinator

noobinator

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I just got a new cheapy windows laptop and am using a wifi usb dongle (having driver issues with the built in network adapter).

I'm using this dongle:

http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-781...F8&qid=1419440111&sr=8-1&keywords=edimax+wifi

I only get about .5mbps on this laptop. On my iphone and mbair im getting around 70mbps. When I tether the laptop to my iphone using hotspot i get 8-10mbps.

What could be causing the slow speeds? Is there a setting in the time capsule?
 
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noobinator said:
I just got a new cheapy windows laptop and am using a wifi usb dongle (having driver issues with the built in network adapter).

I'm using this dongle:

http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-781...F8&qid=1419440111&sr=8-1&keywords=edimax+wifi

I only get about .5mbps on this laptop. On my iphone and mbair im getting around 70mbps. When I tether the laptop to my iphone using hotspot i get 8-10mbps.

What could be causing the slow speeds? Is there a setting in the time capsule?
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What transmit rate are you getting from the Time Capsule to the wireless adapter?
 
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Altemose said:
It is inside of Network and Sharing Center. It will say Speed: 135 Mbps for instance. You can download drivers from ASUS for the internal card here. Did you wipe it and load a different OS?
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It says 150mbps. Yes u have windows tech preview on it. I crashed the old win 8.1 and couldn't get 8.1 to activate and I didn't want to buy a copy so I used the tech preview. All the other drivers from Asus work in the tech preview but the network adapter driver will not load or install. Error update.cpp
 
noobinator said:
It says 150mbps. Yes u have windows tech preview on it. I crashed the old win 8.1 and couldn't get 8.1 to activate and I didn't want to buy a copy so I used the tech preview. All the other drivers from Asus work in the tech preview but the network adapter driver will not load or install. Error update.cpp
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First of all, if you had an activation error both ASUS or Microsoft could help you. Installing a preview version of Windows in an effort to avoid activation will only lead to headaches later. I would recommend that you go back to Windows 8.1 in all honesty.
 
Altemose said:
First of all, if you had an activation error both ASUS or Microsoft could help you. Installing a preview version of Windows in an effort to avoid activation will only lead to headaches later. I would recommend that you go back to Windows 8.1 in all honesty.
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Microsoft said to call ASUS and ASUS said I had to send them in my laptop and would get it back in 4-6 weeks. This laptop cost me $99. I'd toss it in the trash before having to send it in and wait 4-6 weeks. (shipping it to them at my cost)

I'm just going with the option that will get it up and running (which it is, albeit slowly).
 
noobinator said:
Microsoft said to call ASUS and ASUS said I had to send them in my laptop and would get it back in 4-6 weeks. This laptop cost me $99. I'd toss it in the trash before having to send it in and wait 4-6 weeks. (shipping it to them at my cost)

I'm just going with the option that will get it up and running (which it is, albeit slowly).
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Do you have a product key on the machine or the box that it shipped in? I have experienced some issues with Broadcom cards (which your ASUS has) in Windows 10 that I am sure will be fixed by the final release. How did you get it for $99?

I think you should go back to 8.1 and I am more than happy to help with that. That being said, there is no reason you are getting so slow speeds with the USB adapter since it has a 150 Mbps transmit rate. Is it on 5 GHz or 2.4?
 
Altemose said:
Do you have a product key on the machine or the box that it shipped in? I have experienced some issues with Broadcom cards (which your ASUS has) in Windows 10 that I am sure will be fixed by the final release. How did you get it for $99?

I think you should go back to 8.1 and I am more than happy to help with that. That being said, there is no reason you are getting so slow speeds with the USB adapter since it has a 150 Mbps transmit rate. Is it on 5 GHz or 2.4?
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I got it for $99 from Best Buy during a sale in November. It is 2.4ghz.

Thanks for offering to help. Here's my issue in a nutshell:

Computer stopped booting. Wouldn't even let me restore, refresh or anything. The only thing I could do was a fresh install from usb. So I got a copy of 8.1. I did not have the original key it came with so I used a generic key.

Once I got 8.1 installed I looked up the original key using some program I downloaded. I tried using it to activate but it said, this key cannot activate this version of windows. So I called microsoft. They said the reason is that I downloaded 8.1 and my key is for a special asus version of windows called 8.1 with Bing. Microsoft does not offer this version as an ISO to put on a boot disk.

So I called asus. They confirmed what microsoft said that I need to load 8.1 with bing and my code won't work with 8.1 regular version. They said they no longer offer recovery hardware (dvd/usb) etc for windows 8.1 and I should have made a restore disk. yes my fault but i didnt.

So they said my options are to purchase a valid 8.1 key and I'd be done with it. Or if I want it set up to look as new I could send it to them and they'd install 8.1 with bing on it and it'd activate with my code.

So on another forum I told this story and someone suggested tech preview since I can get past the activation issue. Everything went perfectly with the drivers. I installed all the drivers on asus's website but got that error on the network adapter one. So I bought this $8 wifi dongle that is super slow.

I wouldn't mind putting 8.1 back on here but I'm not buying 8.1 for a hundred bucks or whatever it cost since this laptop was only a hundred bux.

So that's probably more than you want to know but I've explored many options over the past few weeks. I appreciate any help or insight you can offer.
 
noobinator said:
I got it for $99 from Best Buy during a sale in November. It is 2.4ghz.

Thanks for offering to help. Here's my issue in a nutshell:

Computer stopped booting. Wouldn't even let me restore, refresh or anything. The only thing I could do was a fresh install from usb. So I got a copy of 8.1. I did not have the original key it came with so I used a generic key.

Once I got 8.1 installed I looked up the original key using some program I downloaded. I tried using it to activate but it said, this key cannot activate this version of windows. So I called microsoft. They said the reason is that I downloaded 8.1 and my key is for a special asus version of windows called 8.1 with Bing. Microsoft does not offer this version as an ISO to put on a boot disk.

So I called asus. They confirmed what microsoft said that I need to load 8.1 with bing and my code won't work with 8.1 regular version. They said they no longer offer recovery hardware (dvd/usb) etc for windows 8.1 and I should have made a restore disk. yes my fault but i didnt.

So they said my options are to purchase a valid 8.1 key and I'd be done with it. Or if I want it set up to look as new I could send it to them and they'd install 8.1 with bing on it and it'd activate with my code.

So on another forum I told this story and someone suggested tech preview since I can get past the activation issue. Everything went perfectly with the drivers. I installed all the drivers on asus's website but got that error on the network adapter one. So I bought this $8 wifi dongle that is super slow.

I wouldn't mind putting 8.1 back on here but I'm not buying 8.1 for a hundred bucks or whatever it cost since this laptop was only a hundred bux.

So that's probably more than you want to know but I've explored many options over the past few weeks. I appreciate any help or insight you can offer.
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PM me.
 
I wanted to use the onboard adapter again and I was able to restore back to windows 8.1 thanks to altemose and everything works again now!
 
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