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Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:56:34 GMT

Is anyone from Acer monitoring this thread? Care to comment and give a response to the technical problem?

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:08:24 GMT

Windows 8 have made some changes to the way a laptop wakes up and power management. This is done to reduce the power consumption and boot time. This can be seen when compared to windows 7, however the side effect of making such changes is that drivers will have to be re written to fit the protocol of Windows 8.

If you are having problem with wifi in windows 8, most probaly is that the driver was not written properly for Windows 8. I don't think we can blame Microsoft for making advances in technology, but it should always be the manufacturer's responsibility to provide hardware driver support.

In this case Qualcomm has produce a generic driver for its product and it as Acer used its component, it will have to port the driver to the platform they are building, in this case the Acer S7.

In the end of the day, it is still up to Acer to make the driver functional.

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:05:30 GMT

I have returned my the S7 for Asus UX31A. I do not hava any problem with the wifi as you stated dracore.

I have also known someone from this forum that returned the S7 for the X1 carbon and is very happy now with his laptop. I think this is a problem with the Aspire S7 not windows 8.

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:46:59 GMT

The different versions may be due to components iI think. my old s7 came with a 4000mah battery while some reviewer reports 4670mah.

Re: acer s7 problems

jialiang123 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:47:42 GMT

It is sad that there is do many problems with this laptop. I returned mine for another brand. Try to see if you can do the same if you are unhappy about the s7.

Thanks for your reply Cory. I have returned the s7 for an...

jialiang123 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:04:32 GMT

Thanks for your reply Cory. I have returned the s7 for another brand and model.

I hope that this problem will be solved soon and good luck.

Re: Why do I keep getting kicked off the internet

jialiang123 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:16:22 GMT

I think you can have a look at this thread for all the wifi problems

http://community.acer.com/t5/Acer-Ultrabooks/Aspire-S7-391-Wifi-problems/td-p/7575/jump-to/first-unread-message

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:35:59 GMT

Hi Cory, will the new driver completely solves the wifi problem?

I am given an option to return the computer, still undecided in whether to return it or not as I like the laptop. Just really annoyed with the wifi.

Re: acer s7 problems

jialiang123 — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:25:55 GMT

Hi, saw that you had some grey corners on your last S7. After servicing does your screen still have grey corners?

I have 2 on mine (bottom left and right) and is wondering if it is normal or should I have it servced.

Re: Aspire S7-391 Keyboard backlight makes buzzing sound

jialiang123 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:33:06 GMT

I have the same problem as well but the buzzing is not loud enough to be a problem.

A question for you, does your screen looks dimmer or darker at the bottom right and bottom left corner? I have uneven lighting on mine. Is this common?

Aspire S7 - 391 uneven screen brightness

jialiang123 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:29:45 GMT

Hi, does any other Aspire S7 - 391 user notice that the rightness at the bottom right and bottom left corner is dimmer that the other part of the screen?

When viewing a single colour picture, the dim lower corners is really noticable.

Please share your experience.

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:26:22 GMT

No change in the newest version, same problem in the dropping of connection no matter which version i used.

Cory, did you tried testing using the bluetooth mouse with the wifi on? The bluetooth seems to interfere with the wifi. My bluetooth mouse will lose connection every once in a while and then the wifi will get disconnected.

Thanks.

Re: acer s7 problem

jialiang123 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:32:37 GMT

Hi there,

The screen dimming is the power saaving mode doing its work to lower the screen brightness. You can choose the balanced power plan to make the screen to not dim. You can also adjust this in the Intel Graphics and Media control Panel.

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:12:42 GMT

After analysing the time for the wireless adaptor to have problem, I discovered that after being awake for exactly 1 hour 45 minutes, either the wifi or the bluetooth will get disconnected. This is using the version 10.0.0.217 .

This shows that there is a timeout being set in the driver to power save after 1 hour 30 minutes. Please fix this bug if anyone from Acer read this.

I cannot rollback on the driver as I reinstalled the new version. Is there any way to get the older version of the driver?

Re: Aspire S7 - 391 Wifi problems

jialiang123 — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:41:46 GMT

I am facing the same problem of the disconnection of wifi after an hour or two of usage. I have followed the steps to install the new version of the driver and now, not only is the wifi getting disconnected, the bluetooth fails to work after a few moment after booting, causing the bluetooth mouse to not work.

Please advice on how to solve this problem, my country do not have a return policy so I am stuck with this laptop and its problem.

Please help.