Notebooks & Netbooks

[Toadsanime]

Hey there guys, my Dad purchased an Aspire E1-571 recently for my 20th birthday and I've been struggling with internet problems. At first I thought it could've been my own internet issue, but the problem is replicated at a friend's house and boyfriend's house and I've tried it with multiple browsers so it's clearly an issue with the laptop itself.

It seems to me that the internet just keeps cutting off at very frequent periods (at least every 5 minutes, if not sooner but rarely at longer intervals). It'll just continue trying to load a page endlessly or eventually tell me that the page cannot be loaded despite the internet signal showing that it's on. It's practically unusable and very annoying -- especially as a lot of my wages come from making articles online and I'm struggling to access the internet, having already thrown out my previous laptop.

Any ideas what the problem is? All I could think it may be is a driver problem or the network card is busted. Thanks in advance.

[Toadsanime]

I'm getting the worrying sinking feeling that I'm not going to get any help from Acer here then, especially seeing as the reply that was here yesterday has been deleted. 

[alee42]

I'm having the same exact issue.  Have you been able to find anything?

[jteodorini]

Having exactly the same issue as well - getting very frustrating as I use it solely for work and have to keep switching to tablet whilst restarting the laptop.

[shadowman]

Have you checked the Power Management setting under Network Adapter.  In default setting, it has an option to let the system turn off to save power.

[zerogear]

im having the same problem except mine last a few hours them cuts out its *** alot now because i cant download any of my films or watch stuff like the walking dead on project free tv because the internet wont stay active long enough i told my dad he shouldve bought me a compaq laptop they never fail me not like acer of which fails all the time and acer you *** make an update for all aspire versions including mine with the **bleep**ing terrible ugly crap operating system called windows 8 that fixes all these problems or just be useless dumb *** that cant make a decent laptop like compaq can

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[andhellfollowed]

Hi everyone,

I recently bought the same laptop and have been having these issues with the internet cutting out every few minutes for the last month, however I tried Shadowman's tip about changing the power management settings and so far so good!

I've spent the last few hours sufring the web and not had a single failure - I changed the power settings to 'MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE' - Seems to have don the trick

Thank you SHADOWMAN

TC

[zaman94]

Hello all,

I just bought this acer 2 weeks ago and having the same problem. The internet is getting disconnected. I was searching on Google and ppl are saying it's Macfee issue. I uninstalled Macfee and installed Norton and still having the same issue. It doesn't seem the hardware, may be some driver or software issue.

I am really flustered.

[zaman94]

Hi all,

I think I find the problem: the wireless LAN driver installed in your computer is not compatible with your wireless adopter.

Follow the step below:

1. Download the Hardware Detection Tool to find out which wireless LAN adapter you have?

2. go to accer driver dowonload page :  for me it Canada : http://www.acer.ca/ac/en/CA/content/drivers or you can google.

3. selet you model and make sure you select the right operating system window 7  or 8 etc. Then you will see the list of Wireless LAN driver (Atheros, Broadcom or Intel). Download and install the appropriate one for your computer.

Good Luck!

[TheBurningDude]

Hello guys!
Your solution (Zaman94) is working temporary. When I install the driver, I immediently connect to my network but when i restart my laptop, it can't connect. But thank you, it works for a while

You can find the Acer Aspire E1-571 under Drivers and Manuals -> Notebook -> Aspire -> Aspire E1-571