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Hi there,

I recently purchased a Asus PCE-N53 Wifi Card for my computer and lets say it has been an extreme disappointment. I have been getting 3mb/s download while I have 50mbps bandwidth. I have contacted ASUS support and gone through all their steps and they are now telling me to send it in.

I have some gift cards I would like to use at Future Shop (here is their selection of network adapters.) If nothing there is good then please recommend whatever you think would work fine.

Thanks!
 
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Hi there,

I recently purchased a Asus PCE-N53 Wifi Card for my computer and lets say it has been an extreme disappointment. I have been getting 3mb/s download while I have 50mbps bandwidth. I have contacted ASUS support and gone through all their steps and they are now telling me to send it in.

I have some gift cards I would like to use at Future Shop (here is their selection of network adapters.) If nothing there is good then please recommend whatever you think would work fine.

Thanks!

This same wireless NIC has many people with the same slow connection problem although there does appear to be a solution in the following link.

Asus PCE N53 working slowly [Solved] - Asus - Components

The latest driver and the registry adjustments in the link may help.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download PCE-N53
 

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Hi there,

I recently purchased a Asus PCE-N53 Wifi Card for my computer and lets say it has been an extreme disappointment. I have been getting 3mb/s download while I have 50mbps bandwidth. I have contacted ASUS support and gone through all their steps and they are now telling me to send it in.

I have some gift cards I would like to use at Future Shop (here is their selection of network adapters.) If nothing there is good then please recommend whatever you think would work fine.

Thanks!

This same wireless NIC has many people with the same slow connection problem although there does appear to be a solution in the following link.

Asus PCE N53 working slowly [Solved] - Asus - Components

The latest driver and the registry adjustments in the link may help.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download PCE-N53

Hi Chev,

I did try this before contacting ASUS but it did not work. When I install the drivers it does seem a bit strange though (and ASUS never said anything about it), but on their support site it says the driver is v1.0.0.8 (I have Windows 7 64-bit), but when I install it I get this information in the Device Manager.

Driver Provider: Ralink Technology Corp.
Driver Date: 28/10/2011
Driver Version: 3.2.6.0

If we can troubleshoot out of this then I guess I should post more info.

Internet Provider: Shaw Communications
Router: ASUS RTAC66U
Modem: Cisco
Anti-Virus: ESET NOD32 7

Something like this,

TP Link Wireless N450 Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (TL-WDN4800) : Network Cards - Future Shop

Have an older model of theirs as well as a router from them, and have never had a problem with either.

Thanks for the info! That will be going on my list for my next purchase!
 
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Yes it's just a rebranded Ralink NIC. These dual band NIC's can be picky about working with certain types of routers.

I noticed many similar slow connection complaints about this particular Asus dual band NIC.

More than likely this Asus NIC would work well when using one of their own dual band routers like the RT-N66U, N56U
 

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Hi Chev,

I did try this before contacting ASUS but it did not work. When I install the drivers it does seem a bit strange though (and ASUS never said anything about it), but on their support site it says the driver is v1.0.0.8 (I have Windows 7 64-bit), but when I install it I get this information in the Device Manager.

Driver Provider: Ralink Technology Corp.
Driver Date: 28/10/2011
Driver Version: 3.2.6.0

If we can troubleshoot out of this then I guess I should post more info.

Internet Provider: Shaw Communications
Router: ASUS RTAC66U
Modem: Cisco
Anti-Virus: ESET NOD32 7



Thanks for the info! That will be going on my list for my next purchase!

I realized this is a very old thread but I too own this ASUS PCE-N53 Wireless adapter and it requires at least version 5.0.0 of the Ralink/Mediatek WLAN drivers for the PCE-N53 adapter to function at optimal speed.

I do not use the drivers from the ASUS web site since the adapter does not work at full speed with those outdated drivers

On this MS Update Catalog link there are several drivers available for the PCE-N53 adapter for Win7:
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=asus+pce-n53+windows+7
(the drivers available there are versions 5.0.9.0 dated 11/27/2012, 5.0.21.0 dated 2/18/2013 and 5.0.52.0 dated 11/25/2014)

Go with using any of the 5.0.x drivers - I use the 5.0.52.0 or higher version with the PCE-N53 adapter that I have.
 

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