Notebooks & Netbooks

[TheBurningDude]

Hello again!
I think i might have found the solution. Follow my steps!

1. Go in Control Panel

2. Click on Hardware and Sound

3. Click on Device Manager

4. Expand Network Card - it's something with Network. My laptop is in Danish, so i don't know what it's called in English.

5. Double click on Broadcom 802.11n and update the driver. If it is up to date, then click on Power Management  and don't allow the computer to turn off the device to save power.

Hope it helped!
- TheBurningDude

[millerb2525]

I chatted with a tech support rep yesterday and downloaded a new driver for the Qualcomm Atheros wireless adaptor, rebooted and voila...internet has been working fine for 24hours.  

[Mortiis]

i have new acer aspire e1-571g and have big problems with wifi internet

for internet i have webcube2,signal is very good but on my laptop ocassionaly internet just dont work,sometimes it said it limited connectivity and sometimes just cant even open sites and do nothing...but on my smartphone internet just works perfectly fine all the time..just have problems on my laptop

i have win 8...maybe problems with drivers or?

i really need help over here

yesterday i installed that recommended driver ''WLAN_Broadcom_6.30.59.20_W8x64''

and was working ok...this morning i turn on my laptop and same **bleep**,it takes me 10min to open this forum and write this message...man i hate this acer thing with wireless!!! if i dont resolve this problem this is my first and last acer!

would it help if i buy usb adapter for wireless? with that is whole another thing,it doesnt use wireless adapter that im having or?

now i UNclicked that box who said turn off adapter for energy saving...and restarted my laptop and now is working fine..

but that was also like yesterday,after i've installed new drivers,and i was happy that its working fine..and this morning,i almost broke my laptop -.-

so i will not say its working until few days passes,cuz sometimes its working fine so this is maybe just a random luck...

if this isnt working im gonna probably buy usb adapter for wireless and try use that,maybe it will work that way,hopefully :/

any tips??

[tothemax]

I have had the same laptop for 6 months now and it takes me at least 10 mins to get it to connect to the network but if I leave it for a few moments without activity I have to go through it all over again.  Just about had enough.

[smslack]

My son bought one of these (the "G" version, I think) and was having terrible issues with the Intel WiFi. Constant drops

zaman94 solution seems to have worked for us. The Win 8 64bit drivers installed and the WiFi settled down. 

Thanks, zaman94

[TheBurningDude]

Check my solution above. It worked for me and 2 other models of Acer. The "Broadcom"-part is different from pc to pc, but you should click on the name of your network card. Hope it helped you guys.

- TheBurningDude

[smslack]

Just want to add another update to this saga. The solution we tried worked, or seemed to work, for a little while. The wifi issues came back with a vengeance and my son got to the point where he was going to take the machine back to the store.

At this point, and to save him a bit of hassle, I set to trying to diagnosing just what was going wrong before talking to the drones on the returns line:

1st try and rule out a driver/Win8 problem by booting with a live distro of Ubuntu. This failed as the version I had (10.04) didn't recognise the wifi card. **bleep**.

2nd I set up a different wireless access point. We have a BT HomeHub 3 into which I plugged a Netgear WiMax access point. What would you know. It's solved the problem! Connect to the Netgear and hey presto - good wifi with the Acer

So he is now running with the stock Win 8 driver and getting a fast connection on start up and a very stable signal.

Could it just be a channel difference, a different 802.11 b/g/n configuration, incompatible HoneHub3 ? WHo knows, but the little bugger has stopped whining now!

[markoo]

I thought I'd throw another solution into the mix, as I have spent most of the evening trying to fix this same problem on my wife's 3 month old E1-571G.

After spending plenty of time installing drivers and setting the power management settings as in some of the answers without luck, I went to my wifi router and had a poke around as there was an answer related to changing the router.

So it seems that my acer laptop is not happy with channel 6 using 108 mbps, so I changed the wireless setting to g and b and picked channel 5 at random and hey presto, wifi is working fine.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Mark.

[Humayoun007]

Your windows may be curropted

[TheLastBro]

Hello,
Did anybody here have my problem too? On the front, there are 4 lights. A light bulb, the battery light, disk tray (i think) and a wireless light. My wireless light is orange/red, and i can't go on the internet. I have been waiting for Google like 20min Now and nothing happens. It just loads. My internet is working perfectly, so what's wrong with the PC? I've tryed to do the "maximum performance" thing in the power options. Please help?