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Tema
I haven't posted in a while becasue I sent back my 2nd defective R7 a month ago for a refund due to the same wifi issues that everone is having, refusing to ship it to TX (I'm in CA) for repairs) after talking repeatedly with some guys in India. After looking for something else for weeks, I decided to give it one more try as I just fell in love with the R7 design and couldn't find anything remotely comparable. Low and behold the 3rd R7 gets delivered to my door. I open it up expecting to go through wifi connectivity hell and guess what? Same issue when not within 10 feet of my router - better than before but just not acceptable still. Shocking right? And to top it off the "C" key is really stiff and not responsive when typing. I am almost ready to take the computer and light a bonfire for it when I decide to pop the "C" key off and investigate. There was a random tiny screw jammed under the key keeping it from pushing all the way down! I surgically removed it with tweezers, snapped the key back on and all was well again. Now for the WiFi bs...So at this point I decided to try everything I could think of. I've invested too much time with these machines to just give up...again. I bought a new router to replace our 12 year old router that needed to go anyway. No change, but my other devices are faster. We bought an external USB wifi adapter - no different. (I was hopeful on this one since others have posted that it worked for them.) We bought a wifi range extender which is located on the opposite end of the house from the router (where I do most of my work). This proved somewhat promising as now I was able to get some decent connectivity but not totally consistent. Lastly, I disabled the power saving mode in Power Management settings (WiFi Status - Properties - Configure - Power Management). This made it more consistent. Now I'm getting good results and am enjoying this machine very much! If connectivity suddenly gets weak to non-existent, it is either due to a Time Warner outage (which is typical for them and has happened twice just within the last week) or I just have to reset the range extender (which I haven't had to do but once other than when I was experimenting with it for connectivity). The only frustrating part is the disabling of the power saving mode doesn't stay disabled upon rebooting the computer, although there have been times when it was enabled and the wifi was working great, others when it was slower so I had to disable it. So I have to check it once in a while when I'm seeing slower connections. I don't know if this will help anyone, but I finally feel good about this computer and just hope this can help someone else (or at least make you laugh at the ridiculous steps we are all taking to make this **bleep** thing work
. I still am not happy with Acer support and there complete ignorance and blatant ignoring of this problem which seems to be more widespread than not.
Just got a reply from acer support: they just said sorry for not supporting windows 7 with drivers, and the question about wifi was just ignored.
The Network Meter gadget on this one shows 60% strength "Good" and Internet Access but with data transfer almost at zero though an internet speed test doesn´t show anything. Only on 90% excellent right next to router speed is good. Doesn´t that sound like internal interference rather than weak link? So it´s just a problem where the antenna is placed.
Using the USB ports sort of ruin what they were there for (mouse and fast usb3 drives).
How about this:
This is of course impossible, since it would mean that acer support had to produce a wifi antenna that would fit to the acer converter port.
My R7 has a Broadcom Adapter...
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