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HP PC Win7 - upgradd to Win 10 - WG111v3 adapter
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HP PC Win7 - upgradd to Win 10 - WG111v3 adapter
Its now a few months since I booted as normal my - then - Win7 HP PC. it went black sreen boot options - restart - needed a few times but eventualoly started BUT the USB ports all failed. I basiually gave up and op[ned occasionally to try whatever help other offered - which without USB to get wifi to get downloads..made it all a bit pointless. I have just uploaded the free Win 10 offer from MS. To do so I had to unplug everything and move it to the living room - where the modem is located. I cannot move it because the landline connects to the modem ( Australia??) and I dont want wires trailing around the house! I connected an Ethernet cabvle and did the upgrade - after that was all settled, I tried a few of the suggested fixes - none worked.
The last suggestion was to check if Netgear - software and the WG111v3 usb "dongle" were still viable or had updates rendered them un-usable.
So that is my question to the community... do I need to get new dongles?
( In Hope) If there are any WIndows guru's online.... any clues on the USB failure. Error 43 ( I think) is a catchall that explains nothing.
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Re: HP PC Win7 - upgradd to Win 10 - WG111v3 adapter
That's a pretty old device. Its sofware dates back to the days of Windows ME!
There is a manual and the latest software for the WG111v3 somewhere at the end of this link:
>>>> WG111v3 | Product | Support | NETGEAR <<<<
You may have a hard time getting it work work in Windows 10.
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Re: HP PC Win7 - upgradd to Win 10 - WG111v3 adapter
Hi,
Thanks for your advice...
on Win7 untill the crash which led to the USB ports dying ( it may have been the reverse I supose) the wifi was working OK through the plug in "dongle". I know these days bascially all PC have a built in wifi modems and maybe these old dongles..like you suggest... are not really suitable for Win10. Which begs the question, do NetGear supply anything I can plug into Win10 to get wifi from the main Telstra modem?
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Re: HP PC Win7 - upgradd to Win 10 - WG111v3 adapter
@VinnyVG wrote:
I know these days bascially all PC have a built in wifi modems
Only laptops.
do NetGear supply anything I can plug into Win10 to get wifi from the main Telstra modem?
Take your pick from this lot:
WiFi Adapters | USB WiFi | NETGEAR
You'll have a much better chance of getting one of those to work in Windows 10 than your 10 year-old throwback, designed to support "Windows 2000, XP, or Vista". A new device will also let you use 5 GHz wifi, rather than the 2.4 GHz that you get with the WG111v3.
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