I just PWND my ****ty wifi adaptor

***Cosmonautical*** · 05-04-2008, 09:35 AM

Don't ever buy any PCI cards from D-Link. D-Link hates you, and will kill all of your children and your children's children. With acid lasers.

They don't update their drivers ever. SD and I hunted down some solution to use drivers made by RaLink, because the card uses one of their chipsets. All of the drivers it installs are labelled in a vague and nondescript fashion, and the inf file is written wrong - making it near impossible to find the right one. So, I found drivers for another card that uses the same RaLink chipset, on the off chance that they would work. I couldn't even be sure they were the right drivers, because the damn inf file installs them all with names like "802.11g Wireless Adapter". VERY HELPFUL, RALINK. I decided to try the drivers listed for Siemen brand cards one by one, hoping they would work properly. First one did. I guess I've got some luck, after all.

But I wouldn't have had to do something that stupid, if D-Link would update their crapass drivers. At first, the card wouldn't find the router unless you did a couple of searches for it. Recently, it started randomly dropping the connection.

Don't **** with me, D-Link, I will tear your balls off.

I was so close to calling them up and cussing out their customer service reps without a single point except to vent myself on whatever hapless indian they'd hired. If they have a company office anywhere nearby, I would certainly be willing to harrass them in person.

Jesus · 05-04-2008, 01:47 PM

Did you try e-mailing them or calling them up before you got so frustrated?

Metal Man · 05-04-2008, 02:27 PM

Argh. That's like the ATT people here. When they make a mistake, they claim it's your fault. Then when you explain you're not an idiot, they freak out and try to charge you for a tech to come out and discover exactly how wrong they are.

The worst part? There's no way to get them to check just their signal being sent to you (which is the part that usually mucks up), which means there's no direct way to fix it when the phone starts dying at random...

...Except to spend an entire day arguing with reps across the world.

***Cosmonautical*** · 05-05-2008, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by wariovswario

Did you try e-mailing them or calling them up before you got so frustrated?

They don't typically respond to emails, and

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They don't update their drivers ever.

As in, they haven't updated their version of the drivers for the chipset their PCI cards use since they released the hardware. Similarily, I don't think sending an email or making a phone call at midnight is an immediately feasible solution. Nor would it get their crappy drivers to be mysteriously updated.

If you're referring to Ralink:

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Similarily, I don't think sending an email or making a phone call at midnight is an immediately feasible solution.

What's the point of your question? I don't even have the time during standard work hours to deal with incompetent and foreign customer-service reps, if that were a likely solution. I also don't think it's sane that I should have to waste my money on their support line to get the hardware I purchased to function as intended.

05-04-2008, 09:35 AM	#1
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	I just PWND my ty wifi adaptor Don't ever buy any PCI cards from D-Link. D-Link hates you, and will kill all of your children and your children's children. With acid lasers. They don't update their drivers ever. SD and I hunted down some solution to use drivers made by RaLink, because the card uses one of their chipsets. All of the drivers it installs are labelled in a vague and nondescript fashion, and the inf file is written wrong - making it near impossible to find the right one. So, I found drivers for another card that uses the same RaLink chipset, on the off chance that they would work. I couldn't even be sure they were the right drivers, because the damn inf file installs them all with names like "802.11g Wireless Adapter". VERY HELPFUL, RALINK. I decided to try the drivers listed for Siemen brand cards one by one, hoping they would work properly. First one did. I guess I've got some luck, after all. But I wouldn't have had to do something that stupid, if D-Link would update their crapass drivers. At first, the card wouldn't find the router unless you did a couple of searches for it. Recently, it started randomly dropping the connection. Don't **** with me, D-Link, I will tear your balls off. I was so close to calling them up and cussing out their customer service reps without a single point except to vent myself on whatever hapless indian they'd hired. If they have a company office anywhere nearby, I would certainly be willing to harrass them in person.

05-04-2008, 01:47 PM	#2
Jesus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Gender: Posts: 5,617 Thanks: 104 Thanked 139 Times in 101 Posts Blog Entries: 3	Did you try e-mailing them or calling them up before you got so frustrated?

05-04-2008, 02:27 PM	#3
Metal Man Fairy-Slaying Maniac Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: 1592 Miles Away From Here Gender: Posts: 18,062 Thanks: 148 Thanked 683 Times in 482 Posts	Argh. That's like the ATT people here. When they make a mistake, they claim it's your fault. Then when you explain you're not an idiot, they freak out and try to charge you for a tech to come out and discover exactly how wrong they are. The worst part? There's no way to get them to check just their signal being sent to you (which is the part that usually mucks up), which means there's no direct way to fix it when the phone starts dying at random... ...Except to spend an entire day arguing with reps across the world.