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    Wifi problems wifi card keeps either turning off or just always needs to be disabled [14]

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by L1qu1d, Nov 28, 2013.

  1. L1qu1d

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    Hi,

    My alienware wifi keeps either disconnecting (after a couple of hours or sometimes right after I connect), and I need to disable then re-enable it for it to reconnect. It only happens with the 5GHZ signal. With the 2.4 Ghz signal, it merely stays connected but surfs slow, again needing a disabling and renabling.

    I've unchecked the windows 8 feature to turn off the wireless to save power and also set it to high performance.

    Any1 else experiencing this issue? I've also tried replacing the original. Same thing!
     
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    Did you try different Wifi Drivers?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Nov 29, 2013
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    I have indeed! Ok so what I've noticed happens is my signal drops to like 11 mbps...but none of my other wifi devices do this. If I reset the chip it goes back to 144 or if I'm on 5ghz it's 1300 mbps. I think there is something wrong with my antennas....or it's a windows 8 thing...
     
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    Alright after disabling and re-positioning the wifi card, and re-installing both windows and the drivers numerous times I found a fix.

    I changed the wifi channel and it seems to have fixed the drop. Now 5 GHZ no longer is lost, and 2.4 ghz works without drops to 5.0 Mbps. It's been stable for 1 week now :)
     
    L1qu1d, Dec 9, 2013
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