Killer Wireless-N 1525 breaking after installing latest drivers. (Alienware 13)

Hey everyone.

Recently upgraded to Windows 10 on my Alienware 13, and yesterday I went ahead and installed the latest drivers for my wireless card (Killer Wireless-N/a/ac 1525), which after rebooting caused my wireless connection to stop working.

The wireless adapter will seemingly work, but whenever it connects to a network it will show it as having limited connectivity (with the little yellow triangle and whatnot), and the connection itself not working. However, trying to access any local address (e.g. the router control panel) via either the browser or even by pinging it in an elevated command prompt returns nothing. Interestingly enough, the cmd ping returns the error 'general failure', and running ipconfig /all doesn't even show the wireless card as existing.

Doing a system restore back to before the installation of the new driver fixes the issue, and reinstalling the new drivers causes the problem to come back. Unless I'm doing something very wrong it seems like these new drivers have quite a severe glitch.

Are any other Alienware owners suffering from this issue?

For reference, the faulty driver version is 1.1.55.1538, released on 12 August 2015, the current working version that I'm using now is 1.1.54.1217.

 

Hey,

was a VPN previously installed ?

google wireless windows 10

 

I had an issue while updating the drivers as well. So first i installed the drivers from the dell website, after that it started working again, fully uninstalled it, downloaded the latest from the Killer website and installed these. After that everything worked fine again. At least on the AW15.

 

I had the same exact issue! Well, at first, I was getting a BSoD due to the wireless driver. I tried installing the drivers from killernetworking.com and ended up with the same issue you're having now... connecting to wireless router, but with limited connectivity. I have been messing around with the wireless driver for this laptop since Windows 10 was released. Finally just reverted back to Windows 8.1 since everything seems to run solid under that OS. I have spent too much time trying to get this laptop to run Windows 10 without issue. I will just wait a little bit until the drivers for this laptop become more mature.

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Still on Windows 8.1 here.

 

+1 Same here, I'd rather spend my time gaming than troubleshooting drivers or whatever!!