I hope someone can help me. I have downloaded the newest drivers for the Network Adapter, and nothing changed. I have two other computers working from the same area and they both connect, and one is an ACER Aspire One, but both have different Network Adapters. Is there a setting I need to change, or something I can do to allow this notebook's network adapter to maintain a connection. It is running on Windows 7 Professional.
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Two immediate solutions- one is to disable Win 7 power management for Wi-Fi the other is to find the bay with a Wi-Fi card, open it and check it the antennas are connected properly.
Intel 5100 is a poor NIC in general but not such a poor one. -
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All i know is that it's not the smallest hatch- this one is for additional mini-PCI express card. From the photos I've seen it looks like the Wi-Fi module is close to the hard drive.
After you've opened it you should be looking for something like this- you will probably have two antennas not three but it should look like the photo. -
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Could you post a photo of the bottom of your notebook (in decent resolution)?
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EDIT: In this case use inSSIDer let it run for a while and post a screenshot- we'll see how the signal levels are.
You should also update drivers, disable power management for Wi-Fi card in Windows and look at the advanced properties of Wi-Fi device in Device Manager to make sure no power management is enabled there and that the signal strength is set to 100% (if such a setting is available) -
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what else is running in the house?
microwave ovens, cordless phones, wireless electric meters, bluetooth, etc, etc, etc
any of that stuff within say, 100 meters (!!!) of your wireless hub can/will cause interference. -
The point is that I have two other computers in the same place that run just fine, and I'm only 20 feet from the router. One is an Aspire One and the other a Dell M1710. And there really isn't anything running in the house that could cause interference. A Wireless phone perhaps, but I've had the same issue in another location with this pc where one of the above ones worked fine.
ACER Travelmate 8471 Wireless Intel 5100 AGN Network Adapter won't stay connected unless 5 feet or less from router
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by fredtm, Jun 12, 2010.