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My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often.

n5pvl — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:51:56 GMT

My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often.

A one-click reset would be nice, if no real fix is possible.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

adbruijns — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:48:06 GMT

I have the same problem. Acer S3-391. Windows 8. This happens when I am connected to the internet but also when I am transferring files localy. When I try to copy a large file (more then 200 MB) the transfer suddenly drops from around 3-4 MB to 300kb and then to 30 kb and then 0. Sometimes the transfer drops to 300 but manages to go back again to 3-4 MB. But mostly the transfer is stopped. Strangely, after the transfer drops I can connect to the internet....

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

n5pvl — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:54:17 GMT

Mine is an S3 - 391 as well.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

adbruijns — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:53:53 GMT

I reverted to the 10.0.0.75 (24-7-2012) drivers and the problems are gone. The 10.0.0.217 drivers caused the problem.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

n5pvl — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:05:22 GMT

I looked for the older driver on the support pages, but no luck there.

How would one revert to the earlier, better-working driver?

Perhaps Acer should re-release the earlier driver and stop distributing the bogus one that is causing problems.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

adbruijns — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:57:36 GMT

You can find the older driver (among a couple of more) here:

http://support.acer.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=4088

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

n5pvl — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:15:13 GMT

Thank you! - Now my WIFI is behaving itself just fine!

I have purchased an identical Aspire S3 for my wife, and have warned her to skip the WIFI upgrade that caused the problem.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

TFLemieux — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:16:56 GMT

I have had similar issues with my Aspire s3 391 as well. for me it was a two part fix.

Part one I found here on the Acer website. http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27675 Follow those intructions and see if that helps.

For the most part that solved it except sometimes when I was running on battery for a long time it was come back. This turned out to be a setting found deep in the power settings. Here is the menu path to get there, open your Charms bar and click settings, then click control panel. Now you want to click power options. (if you are in category view you will first need to click "hardware and sound" to get to power options) On the power options page there are two default plans Balanced and Power saver. The one you are using will be in BOLD text. Next to that will be a link to "Change plan settings" click that link. On that page there will be a link that says "Change advanced power options" click that and a small window will open. Scroll down the menu in that window until you get to "wireless adaptor settings" click the plus nest to that to expand it and a new options will apear below that says power saving mode. Click that plus to expand as well. Now you need to change the setting for both optins to maximum performance.

These tow steps combined seem to have fixed the problem for me. I am currently expirementing with the low power saving setting for on battery to see if it works as well and have not had any problem so far but it has only been one day.

I hope this helps you as it took me quite a while to find these two things myself and I know how frustrating it can be when your new computer is not working proerly.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

riccout — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:29:58 GMT

i followed mr TFLemieux instructions and now my problem is resolved. BUT im using fw 10.0.0.75

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

dj1766 — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:20:59 GMT

The older driver fixed my problems. Thanks.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

Damian — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:02:13 GMT

The .217 were causing problems, but the .225 drivers work perfectly with me...

And why use outdated .75 drivers if the .225 work....

but on the other hand; if it aint broke don't fix it

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

Barly — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:49:33 GMT

I have the same problem, and it drives me crazy. Tried all the things above, including drivers from .75 to .225 and changing the power settings, to no avail.

Is there nothing one can do?

Did I really pay that much money for a computer that can't go online in a normal way?

Happy and thankful for any help!

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

Mattdmay — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:38:09 GMT

Yes, same here! It truly enrages me to think how Acer dares to sell such a handicapped device.
I used the thing only a few days now and it has completely lost all connection to wifi. I tried all the recommendations, old drivers, new drivers, changing settings, everything mentioned on this board.
Give us a solution, Acer!

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

jollygreenguy — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:27:01 GMT

I am having the same problem with my wifi connection on my Acer Aspire P3-171. However, my connection does not 'drop' as I can still ping out, just experience higher response times and extremely low throughput. I could be in the middle of downloading a file at over a megabyte per second and it drops down to nothing as in 0 kbps from both my local metwork and from the internet.

When this happens i'll check my laptop or smart phone connected to the same wifi network and no problem exists.

I have updates the wireless nerwork adapter (Qualcomm Atheros AR5BMD222) to 10.0.0.234, even tried disabling bluetooth.

I also went into device properties for the above mentioned device via device manager and unser the Power Management tab I removed the check from, "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

I also went into the advanced power settings for both plugged and unplugged for high performance, entertainment and power saver and made sure that the setting for my wireless adapter setting was set to maximum performance for power saving mode.

I have the issue intermitmently regardless how long the unit has been on battery or not and eebooting makes no difference.

The only firewall I am running is the one that comes with Windows, apart from the firewall on m router. This problem occurs independent of the browser I am using as it happens via a simple file copy operation over my local network.

I thought that maybe the included keyboard case had a material in it that caused signal loss but that would have been a big oversight suring product testing but I tried it in tablet mode only and had the same problem.

Someone mentioned they had luck with an older driver and if I can find it I'll try that. If anyone has any suggestions i'll be bappy to hear of them.

Thanks,

John

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

jollygreenguy — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:01:17 GMT

I wanted to add that I have tried versions 10.0.0.217, .225 and .234 of the wireless adapter and they all have the same problem.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

bugmenot — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:49:20 GMT

I can confirm you that the older driver worked on my S3, the version is 9.2.0.474. All the 10.x versions seem to get poor wifi signal.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

alfie3 — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:57:20 GMT

My S3-391 wireless connection would slow down after a few minutes with 'waiting for ---' in the address bar. Solved it by updating the Atheros driver from 10.0.0.225 to 10.0.0.255 using a free program called Drivermax. Couldn't find this driver anywhere else. Worth a try.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

fissh — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:00:59 GMT

I was having the same problem, I use a replicator for my WiFi at home to extend the signal through the whole house- I upgraded from Win 8 to Win 8 Pro and the problem is solved.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

nadworks — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:34:53 GMT

This is a joke - so many people with this problem and no support from Acer.

I have been experiencing this issue from day one with my Aspire S3. Strong signal, flaky stability. All other devices I have work perfectly fine at the same distance.

Frustrated, angry and definitely won't recommend this product to anybody.

Re: My Aspire S3 loses WIFI connectivity very often. - A reset fixes it, but this happens very often

alfie3 — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:05:56 GMT

Have you updated the Atheros driver to 10.0.0.276? I've had no problems with my S3-391 since updating the driver.