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A7000 Usb3.0 Adaptor wifi ping spikes
I had this wifi adapter for a while and I managed to fix this issue a long time ago but all of the sudden my wifi adapter stopped working as efficiently as before. I used to be able to run discord pe...
- I gave up and decided to just buy a new product and now my wifi works again...
Yea i noticed there is a windows update but i'm not sure how i can fix it. When i hopped on yesterday all my wallpapers for my desktop changed and now my wifi adapter barely works
My latest update is KB5046613 - what was yours? I'm going to try and uninstall to see if it works again.
It says "Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5045935) on 11/15/2024" theres also a security update one that says (KB5046633) same date
Ok so I uninstalled KB5046613 and restarted, it showed no change.
I did however follow the instructions and download the file from this page:
https://kb.netgear.com/000055980/A7000-Software-Version-1-0-0-15-Windows?article=000055980
(http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/A7000/A7000_V1.0.0.15_Windows.zip)
After I downloaded and extracted the file, I decided to uninstall the device and remove drivers in device manager so it could not recognise the device anymore.
Then I unplugged the A7000, waited about 30 seconds, replugged it in, and then ran the standalone file from the download which re-installed drivers for it.
I've been using pingplotterr to monitor performance.
The red bar is when I uninstalled, removed and reinstalled device.
The left side is the ping/latency when I had issues (you can see it hitting high 1000ms)
The right side is after reinstall (ignore the 2 red ping spikes, that was me changing another setting so expected).
So it looks to have fixed it for now? I'll keep an eye out.
After letting it run a couple more minutes, the performance looks to be stabilised again, staying below 10ms. Performance attached below. Hope this helps you!
I also found the issues when gaming and using discord.I'll monitor it further tomorrow and update here if anything happens. Let me know how it goes for you?