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    BOOTCAMP Windows 7 wifi broadcom driver issue ??

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by shriek11, Jun 20, 2014.

  1. shriek11

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    Hi guys,

    So, I installed windows 7 in bootcamp with the apple drivers and unlike the Mac side, I have issues of wifi randomly disconnecting. I ran the TCP / IP reset instructions here and it isn't disconnecting every minute, but the sites randomly don't load anymore.

    How to reset TCP/IP by using the NetShell utility


    Now, I remember that I disable the ability of bluetooth to look for keyboards and mice since I remember reading that in OS X, the bluetooth being close? to wifi adapter interferes with its signals. I remember that I would have very bad wifi at school (crowded area) but that problem was gone with disable the trackpad / keyboard bluetooth option along with linking to local host for ipv6 connections.
    Wifi is great in OS X compared to windows now.

    Other than disabling the bluetooth here in windows, can I install any non-broadcom drivers? I remember that windows 7 does come with its own network drivers, but even if i disable the broadcom version, windows is not able to find it so does apple disable that windows 7 native network adaptor?


    Any help would be great.
     
    shriek11, Jun 20, 2014
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  2. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Well, you would have to install a Broadcom driver considering it's the company that provided the chipset. There should be more recent versions available, though. Check station-drivers or similar sites.
     
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  3. shriek11

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    It seems that things have improved since I disabled bluetooth in windows side. I'll update of any weird issues again.
     
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    The MS and Apple Bluetooth drivers are quite buggy. I'm not surprised they would be causing problems elsewhere even if you don't have any BT devices.
     
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    I have bluetooth on in my sony laptop and it doesn't interfere with wifi. I think it is more of an apple broadcom issue which hasn't been solved since only apple uses broadcom, hence it is a very small market. I had the same issues on OS X side in the past where microsoft has nothing to do with anything.
     
    shriek11, Jun 20, 2014
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