Hi, hoping to find some answers to my problem here.
For a while now the wireless connection on my laptop has been very unstable. I had used it for about six months without experiencing problems, but a month or two ago I started getting very frustated with it.
Let me explain my problem.
The wireless can be turned on just fine and has no trouble finding available networks. No problem here. But when I try to connect to one it rarely works, and the few times were it does connect, the internet is incredibly slow. I would say it works flawlessly and fast about 10% of the time. The rest of the time it's like I just explained; it either won't connect or is too slow.
I first noticed this when visiting my parents, so back then I just shrugged it off and thought there were some problems with their internet. There wasn't. The rest of my family had no problems with their laptops, and it even worked fine on my phone and tablet. When I went back to my own place again the same thing happened. My roommates had no problems with the internet, but my laptop had the same problems as before.
Other than those two places I have tried testing it at school and with a tethered connection using my phone. I actually don't think I had any problems at my school for the short duration I was there before vacation, which is weird. On the tethered connection I don't have any trouble connecting to the network, but it't still very slow most of the time, even though I'm on 4G. Browsing on my phone is still fast though, so it's obvious that there's something wrong with the laptop.
I don't know what suddenly caused this, since it worked perfectly when I bought it.
Updating the wireless card drivers didn't work, so I have no idea what to do now. I'm thinking about sending it back to Acer, but want to see if anyone on here has a solution first.
