I recently upgraded to from Win7 to Win8 and loaded the beta driver for the WNA1100 (v10.0.0.20 10/15/12). Since making that change, connection quality between the PC and AP has gone from excellent to barely useable. Packet loss is consistantly 50% and available bandwidth has been cut in half. Before and after the upgrade, signal strength has been staying in the -68 to -75dBm range. I was wondering if there was anything settings-wise that I could change to try to improve the connection quality? Some things that I have already tried was to force 802.11b only, change RTS/CTS settings on the AP side, increasing transmit/receive buffers on the PC side. I was also wondering when an updated driver would become available for download, or if there is somewhere that I could get a later version at this time, even if it is not ready for 'prime time' yet I would still be willing to try it as anything would be better than what I have right now. If there is anything that I can do assist in resolving this issue please let me know! For anyone else experiencing this problem, I have contacted NETGEAR about the issue, and this is what they had to say. 'I apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. However, we only have the Windows 8 Beta drivers released at the moment. We are still in the process of perfecting the Windows 8 driver for all our adapters and devices. Rest assured that we will release a new Windows 8 driver once it will be tested and ready. As of the moment, we do not have an exact date of release for the said update. Kindly continue on checking our support website for updates'.
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