Applicable models: Atheros Wireless Eees: 70x, 900, some 1000HE

Applicable OS: WindowsXP

You may experience a variety of problems with your wireless in your Eee under WindowsXP.

The first thing to check is that Power save mode is disabled.

1. Open up device manager and double click the Atheros Wireless Entry under network adapters.
2. Open the Advanced tab.
3. Set Power Save Mode to Off

The Atheros Wireless drivers may start to use up excessive CPU cycles. Using the tool Process Explorer confirm that DPC or Interrupts have a high CPU usage (> 10%). If they do this may indicate problems with the driver.

You may also experience excessive stuttering from your sound card, even playing back a local sound file (eg: not due to network buffering issues, or the CPU being stressed by High def content) and the symptoms go away if you disable your wireless.

Try the following options:

1. If possible try changing the channel on your access point / wireless router.
2. On a 700x series Eee, try overclocking using EeeCtl or SHE.
3. Try updating the drivers.

If the above steps don't resolve the issue, try upgrading the driver.

1. Confirm the sticker under the battery says AW-NE771
2. Try the driver for WLAN_NE785 from ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/EeePC/1005HAB/
3. Or Try the driver from this site http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR9280&system=1

Updated 1000HE wi-fi drivers "borrowed" from the new 1005HAB

New 1000HE....very slow wireless