2013 Archives

[kriis]

about bt mouse, mine (verbatim) working fine - exepct that sometimes it freezes (touch screen then work fine) for about 1 min or so (if you want to refresh it you have to go to mouse setting and check battery status, then mouse unfreezes itself). Battery are new one

Has someone got similar issue?

[tcripe8401]

I have had this laptop now for 2 weeks the first week it worked really well at any location in the house with full signal connected at 130mbps. stream a lot of videos to my tv which the router sits right next to the tv there for the laptop is within 5 ft a lot. While it sits on the tv stand it connects at about 32 mbps and it constantly buffers media. So i put it in my lap about 5 ft away and it shows a 130 mbps and yet it actually buffers worse then it did.  I plugged in my usb dlink wireless n card and it connects at 240 mbps and i have no problem streaming anything no matter if its right next to the router.  Now I'm not genuis by no means but I do have commen sense so by this test it makes sense that acer needs to get this resolved by giving us a new driver so the broadcam will work properly and fast.  Also I checked my bandwitdh with a ping of about 36 with the broadcam and i was getting close to 9 mbps down and 5 up, with my dlink its giving me a ping of 19 and close to 21 mpbs down with closer to 6 up so my other deal with this is my d link is 2 years old and they honestly put a  crappy wireless reciever in the laptop when they easily could have a better one in. and the results are me sitting in the same spot. 

[Luis_Finlay]

Hi! I'm from Mexico and I'm a bit frustrated with my new R7. It's a 330 snid and the WiFi connection via internal module is a painfull experience. I also bought an USB Wifi and the Wifi Signal and speed are improved. I had read all this 53 pages and followed the user instructions but I don't have any improvement. I don't wanna have the Dlink usb always, and also this laptop isn't cheap. I could say that my R7 Snid 330 is also with the WiFi issue, at least in Mexico (so, not only the <328 snid models are problematic).

Please, give an advice of this problem on your page, because it's unconfortable to be on my home, college or work and the WiFi is a pain in... and I really need a functional laptop for all my tasks.

Ps: This PC was launched on may... and some days ago Acer shown the new R7 with haswell, and will be launched on the last quarter of the year on europe.. -_-
I want one of those...

[r7user]

I am having problems with my wlan aswell.

My acer aspire 5739 suffered from a similar problem.

Luckily I could solve that problem by connection the antennas the other way around.

After that it worked fine.

Has someone tried something like that yet? 

[MikeC]

I am not sure what you mean by "connection the antennas the other way around".

[r7user]

the black and white cables were plugged in the wrong way on the card.

after changing it:

black -> main

white -> aux

it worked fine.

[Vince53]

If your Wi-Fi still doesn't work well, try this. MAYBE it will work:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/change-connection-priority-windows

[TrueBlue7_77]

How do you do that

Is it difficult

Makes sense

TB

[njcurveball]

Vince53 do you own the Aspire R7?

I tried tweaking all of those settings and had no luck. I now see the newer models have the same problem. Best to wait for the next generation of this machine.

[simeon]

Hey guys,

Scratch what I say below here I am still getting crappy/no signal from 20 feet away

Just a follow up, I recieved my replacement laptop in the mail today with and snid of 333.

everything is working great so far! 

Hopefully everyone is getting the same results I did with their replacements.