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[mapajegio]

Hi all,

I recently picked up an Aspire S7 haswell and am loving it...except for the flaky wifi.  Reading various forums around the web it is sounding like the problem stems from the Intel N7260 card being straight-up crappy.

I haven't been able to find any tutorials or walkthroughs of people swapping the N7260 card in the S7 out with the much more reliable and faster AC7260, so I wonder: is the card user-replaceable on the S7-392 or is the card permanently soldered onto the main board?

Thanks in advance for your insight!

If the card isn't replaceable, I will likely return this laptop within the 30-day window.  Such a shame!

[SofaRider]

The Intel Centrino Advanced-N 7260 Wi-Fi card on my S7-392 works quite well but it does disconnect every once in a great while.  And when it does I run the following command (in a batch file) to reset the device driver and I'm back in action:

  START /min DevCon restart "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_08B1&SUBSYS_C0608086&REV_6B"

You will need to find your own copy of Microsoft's (Device Console) DevCon.exe utility for this to work.