weebster – 1 day ago  » 

Hi

I’m having exactly the same problem with my new (delivered today) EW-7711UAn dongle on firmware V 1.0.29. I have had the box connected to the LAN for over 2 years with an excellent network connection, but have just moved the box and now need to connect via wifi. Could Edimax have changed the chipset as 2 users are unable to detect any wifi signal, and both within days of each other, whilst this problem doesn’t seem to exisit on older postings?

Hi,

I purchased the Edimax EW-7711UTn a couple of weeks ago from an Ebay vendor and it works fine with my HDR-T2, so it might just be a few dodgy dongles about. It appears as if the design is still compatible with the Humax, at least from my limited experience.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi Barry,

When you say “Same results as weebster when trying on computers as well, so something has changed” does that mean you can’t get the dongle to work at all, either on the Humax or on a PC? If you can’t get it to work on a PC then surely this points to a faulty dongle (or even a whole batch of them!) rather than any basic design change. If it doesn’t work on a PC as it is intended to do then surely it must be faulty.

Unfortunately, with mass produced cheap electronic items nowadays its less expensive for the manufacturer to NOT test their products and instead put money into refunds/replacements when the end user (that us) finds a faulty one.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi all

Many thanks for your input and help (especially Barry) with this matter. I have just returned from a week in China this evening, but was following the posts, whilst away.

I was in e-mail contact with Arnis Kakitis at Edimax Tech Support on a daily basis from Monday through Thursday. He was most helpful and a quick responder, and concluded that my unit was faulty. I was somewhat sceptical as Barry and others had experienced the same problem as me. Anyway, I ordered another EW-7711UAN from the same Amazon supplier from which I purchased the first. The dongle arrived whilst I was away so I tried it this evening, not expecting much in the way of success. I have been pleasantly surprised, the new dongle works with the PC in wireless zero (driver only) and with the Edimax connection software, and it also found all the SSIDs available to my other wireless network devices, and connected straight away with the HDR FOX T2.

Clearly there is a problem with some of the dongles, although Arnis did advise that Edimax were not aware of any customer complaints concerning this matter.

Neil

I had the same problem as documented in this topic.

I’ve returned the EW-7711UAN for a refund (they didn’t offer an exchange) and ordered a new one.

Let’s hope I have more luck with the new one.

R.

There has been a suggestion from some users that ‘new’ Edimax 7711 dongles don’t work on the Humax. The possible theory is that they changed the chip set, here is the quote :- “Edimax – EW – 7711 USB Dongles with a ‘Win8’ logo on the box are reported NOT to work with the Humax”. Maybe users could comment on this

I have had the same problem as described above, although my Edimax EW-711Uan is in a box that claims Windows 7 report (not the Windows 8 sticker).

The dongle will plug into my laptop and find my wireless network (Sky Broadband) but the Hummy can’t see it. If I add the details manually, it still doesn’t connect. Has anyone seen a solution posted anywhere?

I also purchased an Edimax dongle of this type, and not only did it not work as others have described, but my attempts to configure it on my Mac using the software provided seemed to install some very bad juju onto my Mac which took weeks to track down and uninstall.

The dongle is currently residing at the bottom of a landfill somewhere, and I’m the proud owner of some TP Link powerlne adapters which are infinitely more reliable and speedy than any wifi I’ve ever tried.

So that’s my alternative solution