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So I just bought the Netgear WNA3100 adapter today for my Win7 Desktop. I'm having a very irritating issue though.. I use the CD's auto-installer to setup the drivers. Once it's done with this it prompts you to insert the adapter into a USB port, which I did.
Once you hit next to verify you inserted it, it says "Detecting Device." Here is where the problem comes in... it just sits at detecting device for about 5 minutes then says the device could not be located... I have no idea why this is happening
I've verified the usb port works (the one im using works fine for my mouse) and I've tried reinstalling everything a couple times
One thing I did notice is that the light on the adapter turns on when I plug it in then turns off about 1 second later and does not come back on
Anyone had this issue and have any idea how to resolve it? It's irritating the hell out of me
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try uninstalling the drivers, putting in the device. when it starts looking for drivers put in the CD, and make it look in the disk for the driver files.
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make sure to use a usb port direct from your pc, not from a hub or something, to get the correct voltage on your adapter
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Meh I gave up on wireless USB adapters in 7. I tried both the Alfa AWUS036H and AE1000 from Linksys - I actually had the same problem you described with the Linksys.
"Plug it in" - I watch ESPN, turn around after 10mins, still nothing.
In the end I caved and used my DD-WRT router as a wireless bridge. I did find out later that my old (read 2005) USB adapter had drivers, but they were generic "Atheros" drivers that had up to 100ms ping, when I was just pinging my access point; so yeah terrible drivers. If you have an older adapter, I would try that out. However, the caveat is that the driver was found through Windows Update, and that only happened b/c I was connected by my DD-WRT router.
Cliffs - Win7 and USB adapters don't mix very well, particularly x64.
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meh I may just use my older linksys router as a bridge then
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Yeah it's surprise how terrible wireless is in Win7. In XP, my trusty HWU54D gets 1ms pings to router, 15ms to game servers. On 7, it's 50-100ms to the router (wtf) and for game servers, up to several hundred, yes even with WLAN Optimizer. With IPv6 on (and not disabled), it hits the thousands.
So yeah - in a nutshell, Win7 fails at wireless.
I'm trying not to blame MS, but the high wireless ping since Vista has never been addressed, so naturally 7 carries that terrible tradition. You could say - "Drivers are manuf. responsibility". Well to an extent, but if driver writing is consistently this patchy and terrible, you gotta start going back to the source.
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Ya I ended up using the older router as a bridge
Friend suggested it might be windows firewall but that was already disabled.
I've come to the conclusion that the USB controller for my mobo doesn't approve of wireless adapters, so I'm kindof stuck using some other method of obtaining intranets 
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