The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    (XPS 1647) WiFi turns itself off

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by aleloco, Aug 15, 2011.

  1. aleloco

    aleloco Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    78
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hi.
    First of all these are my specs:
    XPS 1647, Wireless card: Intel Ultimate-N 6300 AGN

    I have been using it for almost a year without any problem at all, but lately the WiFi connection switches off randomly, and i need to restart my laptop to connect me to internet again.
    I already checked the bios setup, the energy save options and updated with the lastest drivers.

    What else should i try?
    Thanks in advance.
     
    aleloco, Aug 15, 2011
    #1
  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

    Reputations:
    5,413
    Messages:
    10,711
    Likes Received:
    1,204
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Try it off a Linux live disc, and see if it is a hardware vs software issue.

    Also try;

    - Resetting TCP/IP (elevate cmd, type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew)
    - Flush DNS (elevate cmd, type ipconfig /flushdns)
    - Reset winsock (elevate cmd, type netsh winsock reset)
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Aug 15, 2011
    #2
  3. morfmedia

    morfmedia Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    78
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Maybe ensure there are no keyboard shortcuts that might do this as well.
     
    morfmedia, Aug 15, 2011
    #3
  4. firesyde424

    firesyde424 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    70
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I've been having this issue as well. It hasn't been frequent enough for me to put much effort into solving the issue, but I have noticed it.
     
    firesyde424, Aug 17, 2011
    #4