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    Acer Aspire 5920 wifi slows down

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by marcelonac, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. marcelonac

    marcelonac Newbie

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    Hey you guys!

    I' was wondering if you could help me with a problem I'm having with the wifi connection of my laptop. Whenever I connect it to the power cable, the wifi connection slows down and if I disconnect it goes back to normal. Has anyone experienced this before? Any guesses?

    Thanks!!
     
    marcelonac, Mar 29, 2008
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  2. kegobeer

    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    We need more details - laptop make/model, operating system, wifi card, etc.
     
    kegobeer, Mar 29, 2008
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  3. marcelonac

    marcelonac Newbie

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    It's an Acer Aspire 5920G, running Windows Vista Home, with an intel core duo, 2GB of RAM and wireless card Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN. Anything else?
     
    marcelonac, Mar 30, 2008
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    You need to check you power management CP settings, and the advanced port properties. I sounds like it is lowering the power when on AC. Normally this happens on batteries.
     
    blue68f100, Mar 30, 2008
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  5. marcelonac

    marcelonac Newbie

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    In the power management section there's no specific mention to the wireless card, only if it should be Active or Inactive, which is already set as active. I don't quite get the advanced port properties. Could you give me a little hand on this?
     
    marcelonac, Mar 31, 2008
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    Have you contacted Acer?
     
    kegobeer, Mar 31, 2008
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Advanced port settings can be found under you network connection then select the port (wired). You can rt click on the Wired and/or wireless icon in the tray to get to properties if you have a icon there.

    There was another user that was through here 2 week ago or so with the same problem. He found a setting was was not set to max power. I was thinking it was in the power management part. If not there the port properties.
     
    blue68f100, Mar 31, 2008
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  8. marcelonac

    marcelonac Newbie

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    Just checked it. It doesn't seem to have anything wrong with the power management part. PLease, HELP!!!!
     
    marcelonac, Apr 16, 2008
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