Skype freezes in Windows 7

Hi Rich Something has gone horribly wrong I think. I downloaded the driver from the link and it worked briefly this morning but I have been without a connection all day. Windows system says the driver is working ok and the internet is ok as I checked with a housemate and theirs is working fine.

Click on Start then Run and paste the following into the Run box, exactly as shown, including double quotes:

cmd /c "ipconfig /all > postme.txt & ping yahoo.com >> postme.txt & notepad postme.txt & del postme.txt"

and press ENTER.

A file will open in Notepad. Please copy and paste the contents here. Close the Notepad window and the file will be deleted and the Command Prompt window will also close.

Next, you can try rolling back the drive to the previous level from Device Manager.

Click Start, type device manager and press Enter
Expand Network Adapters
Double click on the Wireless adapter
Click on the Driver tab
Click the Roll Back Driver button

See if that gets things working again.

If yes, repeat the ipconfig process above and post the info from both runs. I want to compare them.

Hi Rich Details as first request Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : User-PC Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No PPP adapter 3Connect: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Connect Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : [removed](Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : [removed] 217.171.132.1 Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.11.12.13 Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.11.12.14 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) #2 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 70-5A-B6-0F-18-A6 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 2: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 70-1A-04-BA-3D-5F DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter isatap.{B03C6006-8A52-40D2-8DD7-34B2EDE4F4AF}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:5ef5:73b8:18fc:101:43e3:6af5(Preferred) Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::18fc:101:43e3:6af5%18(Preferred) Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter isatap.{338DB890-6FB8-44FA-8A12-4E5A53AAE842}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:bc1c:950a::bc1c:950a(Preferred) Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : [removed] 217.171.132.1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter isatap.{E92560EF-6A3C-448D-BB40-F6D9B79FAA04}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Pinging yahoo.com [67.195.160.76] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.195.160.76: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.195.160.76: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=51 Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 67.195.160.76: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 138ms, Maximum = 139ms, Average = 138ms

The roll back button was inactive

If the rollback button was inactive then the install of the driver you downloaded did not work.

You have a Win 7 32 bit install. Did you download a 32 bit driver?

You can try doing a System Restore to before you did/tried the Wireless driver install, see if that fixes it.

Click on Start, type system restore and press Enter to begin.

I don't know what driver I installed, it didn't say what "bit" it was. I tried a system restore but got a failed message saying that the restore point was damaged or corrupted. Tried an earlier restore point (30/07/2011) but got the same message

There were two entries for the latest driver on that page: 📎AtherosDriver.jpg You needed the top one that has X86 in it.

Hi Rich Windows update reloaded the driver this morning and it seems to be working fine. I guess its the original driver so I will have the same upload download issue

Let me know if the YouTube video problem is still happening. If so I'll see if I can get a few other folks interested, hopefully they will have some ideas.