Ultra-Thin

[Damian]

The .217 were causing problems, but the .225 drivers work perfectly with me...

And why use outdated .75 drivers if the .225 work....

but on the other hand; if it aint broke don't fix it

[Barly]

I have the same problem, and it drives me crazy. Tried all the things above, including drivers from .75 to .225 and changing the power settings, to no avail.

Is there nothing one can do?

Did I really pay that much money for a computer that can't go online in a normal way?

Happy and thankful for any help!

[Mattdmay]

Yes, same here! It truly enrages me to think how Acer dares to sell such a handicapped device.
I used the thing only a few days now and it has completely lost all connection to wifi. I tried all the recommendations, old drivers, new drivers, changing settings, everything mentioned on this board.
Give us a solution, Acer!

[jollygreenguy]

I am having the same problem with my wifi connection on my Acer Aspire P3-171.  However, my connection does not 'drop' as I can still ping out, just experience higher response times and extremely low throughput.   I could be in the middle of downloading a file at over a megabyte per second and it drops down to nothing as in 0 kbps from both my local metwork and from the internet.

When this happens i'll check my laptop or smart phone connected to the same wifi network and no problem exists.

I have updates the wireless nerwork adapter (Qualcomm Atheros AR5BMD222) to 10.0.0.234, even tried disabling bluetooth.

I also went into device properties for the above mentioned device via device manager and unser the Power Management tab I removed the check from, "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

I also went into the advanced power settings for both plugged and unplugged for high performance, entertainment and power saver and made sure that the setting for my wireless adapter setting was set to maximum performance for power saving mode.

I have the issue intermitmently regardless how long the unit has been on battery or not and eebooting makes no difference.

The only firewall I am running is the one that comes with Windows, apart from the firewall on m router.  This problem occurs independent of the browser I am using as it happens via a simple file copy operation over my local network.

I thought that maybe the included keyboard case had a material in it that caused signal loss but that would have been a big oversight suring product testing but I tried it in tablet mode only and had the same problem.

Someone mentioned they had luck with an older driver and if I can find it I'll try that.  If anyone has any suggestions i'll be bappy to hear of them.

Thanks,

John

[jollygreenguy]

I wanted to add that I have tried versions 10.0.0.217,  .225 and .234 of the wireless adapter and they all have the same problem.

[bugmenot]

I can confirm you that the older driver worked on my S3, the version is 9.2.0.474. All the 10.x versions seem to get poor wifi signal.

[alfie3]

My S3-391 wireless connection would slow down after a few minutes with 'waiting for ---' in the address bar. Solved it by updating the Atheros driver from 10.0.0.225 to 10.0.0.255 using a free program called Drivermax. Couldn't find this driver anywhere else. Worth a try.

[fissh]

 I was having the same problem, I use a replicator for my WiFi at home to extend the signal through the whole house-  I upgraded from Win 8 to Win 8 Pro and the problem is solved.

[nadworks]

This is a joke - so many people with this problem and no support from Acer.

I have been experiencing this issue from day one with my Aspire S3. Strong signal, flaky stability. All other devices I have work perfectly fine at the same distance.

Frustrated, angry and definitely won't recommend this product to anybody.

[alfie3]

Have you updated the Atheros driver to 10.0.0.276? I've had no problems with my S3-391 since updating the driver.