I'm on a Toshiba Satellite C870-1HN;
WiFi adapter: Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E network interface;
OS: Windows 8.1 Home;
Brand new laptop.
95% of the time I cannot do anything on the network: I can't browse the internet, I can't transfer files between this laptop and another on the network, etc. The task manager network performance indicates 0 kbps sent, 0 kbps received. Occasionally there might be a slight change: sometimes 8 kbps, sometimes as much as 100 kbps. Even then, websites load extremely slow (even in the dial-up era it didn't take 30 minutes to load a website...)
The other 5% of the time I get download speeds of 2mbps or above. This is very random. I just tried transfering a 10mb file and for the first 20 minutes it did nothing, then it jumped to 1.5mbps, transfered most of the file in 10 seconds, then it got back to 0 kbps and 10 minutes later the remainder of the file got transfered in 1 second.
Other computers on the network (running windows 7 or below) have no issues at all.
The signal strength always reads 5/5 bars. Oddly enough, if I disconnect, the network will show up having 3/5 bars. I reconnect again, and I get full signal strength (but 0 kbps). The status is "Connected" (no "Limited Access" or anything, just "Connected")
The network speed reeds anywhere between 24.0 mbps to 56.0 mbps (and 100 mbps if next to the router)
Things I've tried:
- Connected through ethernet (everything works fine, but this is no solution for a mobile laptop)
- Installed Windows 8.1 (previously windows 8, same issues)
- The standard windows problem solvers detect no problems with the adapter or the internet connection
- Set WiFi mode to 802.11 b/g (previously b/g/n) - my router only supports b/g
- Disabled windows firewall entirely (after trying various exceptions)
- Disabled IPv6 in the adapter settings
- Disabled Bluetooth adapter (what the heck, someone suggested it)
- Disconnecting & reconnecting to the network will often give a spike to 2mbps and then drop to 0 kbps. Sometimes it'll work for a while, but continuously having to reconnect is not a solution.
- Countless other things that I forgot to mention.
WiFi adapter: Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E network interface;
OS: Windows 8.1 Home;
Brand new laptop.
95% of the time I cannot do anything on the network: I can't browse the internet, I can't transfer files between this laptop and another on the network, etc. The task manager network performance indicates 0 kbps sent, 0 kbps received. Occasionally there might be a slight change: sometimes 8 kbps, sometimes as much as 100 kbps. Even then, websites load extremely slow (even in the dial-up era it didn't take 30 minutes to load a website...)
The other 5% of the time I get download speeds of 2mbps or above. This is very random. I just tried transfering a 10mb file and for the first 20 minutes it did nothing, then it jumped to 1.5mbps, transfered most of the file in 10 seconds, then it got back to 0 kbps and 10 minutes later the remainder of the file got transfered in 1 second.
Other computers on the network (running windows 7 or below) have no issues at all.
The signal strength always reads 5/5 bars. Oddly enough, if I disconnect, the network will show up having 3/5 bars. I reconnect again, and I get full signal strength (but 0 kbps). The status is "Connected" (no "Limited Access" or anything, just "Connected")
The network speed reeds anywhere between 24.0 mbps to 56.0 mbps (and 100 mbps if next to the router)
Things I've tried:
- Connected through ethernet (everything works fine, but this is no solution for a mobile laptop)
- Installed Windows 8.1 (previously windows 8, same issues)
- The standard windows problem solvers detect no problems with the adapter or the internet connection
- Set WiFi mode to 802.11 b/g (previously b/g/n) - my router only supports b/g
- Disabled windows firewall entirely (after trying various exceptions)
- Disabled IPv6 in the adapter settings
- Disabled Bluetooth adapter (what the heck, someone suggested it)
- Disconnecting & reconnecting to the network will often give a spike to 2mbps and then drop to 0 kbps. Sometimes it'll work for a while, but continuously having to reconnect is not a solution.
- Countless other things that I forgot to mention.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Home