Wireless NIC Crash @ High Speeds

[dexmanone]

Running onboard NIC I have no issues, get 30mb down 1.9mb up. However using Wireless NIC (PCI) it can't handle "full speed". So if just cruising internet or streaming audio, no problem but if doing a speakeasy speedtest for example where there's the burst followed by full speed, it freezes and 95% of the time just crashes (even to blue screen) the pc.

I've disabled the onboard NIC. Running:

Vista Ultimate w 3gb RAM
Linksys Wireless-G NIC
ABIT VT7 - motherboard - ATX - PT880
SATA Raid Mirrored

Is there a way to limit max speed on the NIC? I'm thinking my MB can't handle the transfer from PCI to the Board at high speed.

 

[extide]

Sounds like a bad driver or something, it shouldnt be an issue with the pci bus (the pci bus can handle way more than that).

Also some cheap wifi routers just suck when copying lots of data too, but it would be weird to see that actually making your machine bluescreen.

 

[dexmanone]

Thanks for the input. Same motherboard, different configs same results. Prior with XP Pro, and Airlink Router, Airlink NIC. Now Linksys-G NIC with Linksys-N (running G) router on Vista, recent drivers.

My router is next to my pc so I've run LAN but want to move router next to PS3 so I can hardwire the PS3. But first I need to get this wireless NIC stable.