Realtek RTL8187

6 discussions on Cabling-Design.com Forums about the Realtek RTL8187: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.

What owners report

Laptop troubles

Thought I'd seen it all, but this one floored me.I regularly use a Realtek based USB adapter on my Preasario laptop (XP)to allow the use of high gain antennas.I switch off the inbuilt IntelPro board and all is well.Then recently when I...

Lost WIFI on ToshibaL655-S5156

Hi guys, I have laptop, I use an Alfa AWUS036H wifi adapter on my boat. After having some difficulty connecting on my boat, I installed new (RTL8187)? software. I didn't uninstall the first install, but it did connect (usually). I had...

WiFi problem

Hi all,I have been borrowing* wifi from a 7 story condo for about 4 yrs. I can see about 40 signals, but only about 6 or 7 that are strongand unencrypted. In the last couple of months I'm have difficulty getting my wifiadapter to lock on to...

Asus P5B WiFi woes

Hi,I recently purchased the above board in the hope that I would usingit's built in Wifi capabilities with my notbook. The repeating problemI am having is that after a few minutes (less than 10) the notebooklooses the IP address assigned by...

Wireless Internet Connection drops when LAN Adapter Enabled

Hi,_The_Setup_I have a Dell Optiplex 745 (new) and it came with a Broadcom NetXtreme57xx Gigabit NIC built in. I also have a Netopia 2247NWG-VGx wirelessaccess point which I was using successfully with two other older PC's.I purchased a...

Wireless Signal Good - But No Internet

On my PC I am running windows XP SP2, an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxemotherboard with Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 NetworkAdapter, which allows for a wireless connection.My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5610Z and I know little more...

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