Wireless card appears to be faulty.

Well, I just got my new M18x a few hours ago. It appears to work fine, apart from its wireless connection.

Half the time, web pages load extremely slowly and rarely completely. At other times, it doesn't work at all.

The signal strength is fine, it behaves the same way right next to the router. The internet connection itself is fine, and other wireless devices work perfectly. If the M18x is wired, it works fine (but I can't use it on a wired connection).

If I disable the wireless adapter by the switch (top right panel), the adapter will not turn back on after pressing the switch again, and requires a restart.

I'm using the base model of wireless card (the Intel 2250 I think?)

Any ideas, or any diagnostics I could run to verify what the problem is? It'd suck if the card really was faulty, although I suppose it does give me an excuse to drop in the better wireless card that's in my old M17 right now...

 

Reinstalled the wireless drivers. The wireless adapter now will come back on after being turned off by the switch. However, the connection is still extremely slow and buggy.

 

AND YOU SAY wired is fine..pages load at the same speeds or it loads normal(what ever that is for you)?
is you wifi unsecured? any chance you gave the neighbor the pass word or some one else got ahold of it if it secured?

try resetting the router to default specs and changing the pass word to some thing else.. I had a similar problem and it turned out my neighbors had been piggy backing of my internet for awhile.. I repair a computer for them and forgot to take the pass word out for the wifi..

other than that ive seen malware and viruses do what your describing.. affecting only the wireless and not a wired connection..

 

Yes, wired is fine and loads at normal speeds. Wireless is secured, nobody else has access. I get normal speed through other devices too.

Just done a clean Windows installation and it's still got the same problem. Could it be malware? I only formatted the system drive for the installation, not the two hard drives.

The computer also doesn't shut down properly sometimes (Gets stuck on 'shutting down', needs a hard reset) and has also given the 8 beeps error twice on startup (however booted fine second time).

Seems to me that there's faulty hardware somewhere here. I would get unlucky, wouldn't I?

EDIT: Failed shutdowns appear to be linked to the wifi adapter. As before, the wifi adapter will not come back on if I switch it off by the switch. The failed shutdowns appear to occur after this.

 

john and fox turned me onto this program that tells you indepth whats causing the issues.. i forget the name of it tho.. let me dig thru my comp for it lol

 

I fixed the issue. After a bit of googling, I found a thread by someone with an M17x R4 with the same wireless card and the same issue. Turns out the 2230 just doesn't like WEP encryption...changed my router to WPA2 and now it works fine.

The 8 beeps on boot does worry me, but considering that's occurred just twice in dozens of reboots and it's been fine afterwards, I don't think it's an issue.