Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 At start up, even from hibernate, Atheros 5007UG WirelessAdapter 2 downloads and crashes internet connection. The only way to … Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack does Atheros 5007UG WirelessAdapter 2 show up in device manager ,the problem could be … Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack > At start up, even from hibernate, Atheros 5007UG WirelessAdapter 2 > downloads i have been using and fixing computer … Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by rubberman This is a laptop? Many laptop WiFi devices are USB connected, even when they are internal. My Dell D630 Wifi card is usb, but internally connected. Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack not sure if you are uisng win7 or 8 ,but you should be able to find reference to it in msconif /startup in win 7 or task manager /startup tab and check it to stop it from doing this all the time Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 rubberman OK, but that does not solve the problem regarding being disconnected from the internet. Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 caperjack It is Windows 7. I have checked again in msconfig, and it is not listed as Atheros. Could it be listed under a different name? Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 Thanks caperjack. I have been switching between machines to try to find a solution and the problem is in Windows Vista laptop. Apologies. The connection is wireless when this happens. Atheros is not at present showing in start up items or in task manager. Having expanded items in Device Manager I see now that it does show under Network Adapters. … Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 Hi caperjack. When I opened up early this morning the Atheros downloaded again and, as usual, disconnected me from the internet. I tried reconnecting but failed. However, a box opened saying that network connections were available. I clicked on this and another box opened showing a list of available networks, including my usual one. When I clicked … Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack good job, hope it keeps working for you , Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 Many thanks, caperjack. Congratulations on your number of posts and on your commitment to helping others. Re: Atheros AR 5007UG Downloads At Launch And Disrupts Internet Connection. Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techno22 Hi rubberman. I have now resolved this issue, I hope, and wanted to thank you for your contribution before I close the topic.