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    Studio XPS 13 WiFi - Tried Everything

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by richan90, Sep 21, 2009.

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    richan90 Notebook Consultant

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    When I first got the laptop, the wifi signal was extremely poor with the dell 1515 card, however, I searched the forums and found that the atheros modded driver pretty much fixed the problem. After upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (from Vista) my wifi is back the old state and installing the latest dell, atheros, and modded drivers do not make a difference at all. I even updated the bios and chipset drivers just in case. I don't think its an issue with the card, because it worked under Vista. Any suggestions :( ?
     
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    Any help please?
     
    richan90, Sep 24, 2009
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    have you checked your Channel numbers your router and your card is on ?
     
    mark.carline, Sep 25, 2009
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    its on automatic, router is on 6
     
    richan90, Sep 28, 2009
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    have you tried changing it to 3 or 9 ?
     
    mark.carline, Sep 28, 2009
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    That's odd. In my case, the wifi card worked flawlessly with the W7 drivers. I think said drivers have been also upgraded (via Windows Update).

    You can always try manually installing those (older) Atheros drivers.
     
    Shaamaan, Sep 28, 2009
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