I helped a friend get started with Sonic.net. Her 2007 Toshiba laptop used to make a WEP connection to her AT&T DSL 2Wire gateway. When she switched to Sonic.net on 6/19/2013, her laptop saw the Pace gateway but after entering the WPA2 password, she could not connect to anywhere on the Internet. It worked with encryption disabled and by wire.
My phone's Wi-Fi connected fine over WPA2. The Sonic.net support rep suspected an encryption problem on the laptop. We left the Pace set unencrypted for the time being.
Laptop: Toshiba Satellite, A135-S4727, Windows Vista sp2. Specs say it does 802.11 b/g.
The internal PA3501U-1MPC Wi-Fi NIC had an Atheros AR5BXB61 unit. Windows described it as Atheros AR5006X. It had driver 7.2.0.164 2/28/2007 which was the latest driver offered by Toshiba's support website. Nothing was offered by the Windows "Driver Update" button.
I was led to a solution by this forum thread
http://dan.matan.ca/Windows-Vista-WPA-W ... g-Time-out
where two users solved this problem by upgrading the Atheros driver from 7.x to 9.x
From this webpage, under the heading "Windows XP 32-bit driver"
http://www.pcpitstop.com/drivers/downlo ... apter.html
I downloaded the file Net_Atheros_XPVSW7_3264_9.2.0.480.exe
which is the Atheros driver v9.2.0.480 1/10/2012 for XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
I scanned this exe using http://www.virustotal.com which gave it a Detection ratio of 1/46 (the 1 labeled it suspicious).
I installed this driver successfully on the laptop without removing the old one first. I used another PC connected by wire to the Pace gateway to enable WPA2-PSK encryption and b/g/n support. Now the laptop joins the network and connects to internet websites at ten times the speed of her basic AT&T service.
Had this not worked, I was ready to try adding a new USB-connected Wi-Fi adapter.
My phone's Wi-Fi connected fine over WPA2. The Sonic.net support rep suspected an encryption problem on the laptop. We left the Pace set unencrypted for the time being.
Laptop: Toshiba Satellite, A135-S4727, Windows Vista sp2. Specs say it does 802.11 b/g.
The internal PA3501U-1MPC Wi-Fi NIC had an Atheros AR5BXB61 unit. Windows described it as Atheros AR5006X. It had driver 7.2.0.164 2/28/2007 which was the latest driver offered by Toshiba's support website. Nothing was offered by the Windows "Driver Update" button.
I was led to a solution by this forum thread
http://dan.matan.ca/Windows-Vista-WPA-W ... g-Time-out
where two users solved this problem by upgrading the Atheros driver from 7.x to 9.x
From this webpage, under the heading "Windows XP 32-bit driver"
http://www.pcpitstop.com/drivers/downlo ... apter.html
I downloaded the file Net_Atheros_XPVSW7_3264_9.2.0.480.exe
which is the Atheros driver v9.2.0.480 1/10/2012 for XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
I scanned this exe using http://www.virustotal.com which gave it a Detection ratio of 1/46 (the 1 labeled it suspicious).
I installed this driver successfully on the laptop without removing the old one first. I used another PC connected by wire to the Pace gateway to enable WPA2-PSK encryption and b/g/n support. Now the laptop joins the network and connects to internet websites at ten times the speed of her basic AT&T service.
Had this not worked, I was ready to try adding a new USB-connected Wi-Fi adapter.
