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    Wifi help please. New pc drops signal.

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by sorrownightshade, Jun 19, 2011.

  1. sorrownightshade

    sorrownightshade Notebook Consultant

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    Its killling me, I have an RC512, I bought an open box policy one for 866, was playing with it all day and night, it kept dropping internet signals, so took back to bbest buy, they gave me a brand new one, kept same price. said enjoy, this one does the same thing, i've trouble shooted, googled etc, and i came accross people with the same issue with this wireless card all across the manufacturing board. I called samsung about it, and there tech is going to be calling me and possibly send someone out to my home to see and try to fix my laptop, but its the wifi card... i know it is, everyone with this wifi card has same issue,

    it will work fine for 8 hours or 20minutes or 5 minutes, then it will completely drop signal, and its impossible to fix it unless you put it to sleep and awake it, or reboot the laptop then it works, i found a setting to disable the power saving feature where you turn it off because i guess it turns wifi card off when it wants to save power or w'e i turned that off,

    I also uninstalled my 4g WiMax software /drivers completely due to fact, we dont even have that in alaska and i read that that could cause interference with my wifi card.

    any suggestions? heres similiar stories

    problem with wireless Intel centrino...: Intel Communities

    Dell XPS L710X wireless problems with Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAXX 6250 - Laptop General Hardware Forum - Laptop - Dell Community

    Like I LOVE MY LAPTOP I want the wifi card fixed, can i take a wifi card out and put a new one in myself?.

    Samsung - Laptop / Intel® Core™ i7 Processor / 15.6" Display / 6GB Memory / 750GB Hard Drive - Black/Graphite - RC512-S02



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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Have you tired different driver versions for your adapter? Usually intel wi-fi hardware is very reliable, at least the 6200 and 6300 are. You cna try running with only the wi-fi drivers and remove the WiMax ones if you don't use it.
     
    tijo, Jun 20, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Make sure the power management is not turning off the card or reducing power to save energy. Need to set not to turn off and max power for best performance. Some of these settings are found under the advanced properties of the card.
     
    blue68f100, Jun 20, 2011
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