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Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8, I'm having serious problems with my wireless connection.
Occasionally I have problems with my wireless connection dropping out. If this happends I am unable to re-estabalish a connection unless I
reboot the computer. Sometimes even this does not work, at which point I either have to reboot several times, keep the computer off for a while or
reinstall my network related drivers. When my connection drops out, the following happends:
The wireless network icon shows a yellow triangle with a !. At that point I am unable to open network centre. When I hover over the icon,
it DOES show my WiFi connection name, with the text "limited connection". Problem solver does not solve anything, including resetting the adapter.
Other devices, like phones, tablets and windows 7 laptops, still work fine. Because I'm unable to open network centre I cannot try other networks.
At the beginning a simple reboot, or switching to a wireless dongle, solved the problem for the time being.
Since yesterday I have no wireless internet at all. It does not matter if I use my on board WiFi or a usb dongle.
When I boot the computer in safe mode with networking capabilities however, it does work fine. I kept my laptop on
for the complete night and next day, with internet radio on to simulate network activity. The network did not drop out.
When i rebooted into normal Windows however, internet works for a few minutes (very slow) before droppping out and showing
the red cross.
I have tried to repair my operating system but this did not help. Finally I installed a 100% clean install of Windows 8.1, with format,
on the computer. Without installing any applications besides AVG security, the problem still occured after a few days.
When keeping an eye on the available network connections, you can notice that networks around the neighbourhood are slowly dropping out. Untill
only my own network connection is left. Eventually even that one drops out.
Summary:
- Network connection drops out eventually, in the beginning rebooting helps, after a few times it is just dead.
At this point only reinstalling all network drivers works, which gives me a few days again.
- When the internal WiFi drops out, even plugging in a WiFi dongle does not work (or for a few minutes). Which makes
me believe that the problems lies within Windows and handling wireless connection.
- When keeping an eye on available networks, you can slowly see networks dropping away untill my own network drops out.
- When the connection drops out with the yellow triangle, I am unable to open network centre, only a reboot solves this.
- When the connection drops out with the red cross, it just tells me "no networks available". While at the same location,
other devices are given plenty of networks. Even a reboot cannot solve it anymore, only reinstalling drivers does.
- All drivers are up-to-date, I've tried Windows Update, Driver Solutionpack and manually checking driver versions.
- The problem even occurs on a clean install of Windows 8.1, with only AVG installed. The problem does not occure when
booting into safe mode with network capabilities.
- I also notice a increased processor and disk activity, but this could also be because services are keeping trying to use internet?
Laptop specs:
Asus N53SV
Core i5, 6GB RAM, Nvidia GT540M
Windows 8.1 Pro (Came with Windows 7 Premium)
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (8.26.218.2014)
Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter (10.0.0.268)
Getting back to Windows 7 just isn't a solution for me as I am a developer that needs to use Visual Studio 2013, Hypver-V and the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
Occasionally I have problems with my wireless connection dropping out. If this happends I am unable to re-estabalish a connection unless I
reboot the computer. Sometimes even this does not work, at which point I either have to reboot several times, keep the computer off for a while or
reinstall my network related drivers. When my connection drops out, the following happends:
The wireless network icon shows a yellow triangle with a !. At that point I am unable to open network centre. When I hover over the icon,
it DOES show my WiFi connection name, with the text "limited connection". Problem solver does not solve anything, including resetting the adapter.
Other devices, like phones, tablets and windows 7 laptops, still work fine. Because I'm unable to open network centre I cannot try other networks.
At the beginning a simple reboot, or switching to a wireless dongle, solved the problem for the time being.
Since yesterday I have no wireless internet at all. It does not matter if I use my on board WiFi or a usb dongle.
When I boot the computer in safe mode with networking capabilities however, it does work fine. I kept my laptop on
for the complete night and next day, with internet radio on to simulate network activity. The network did not drop out.
When i rebooted into normal Windows however, internet works for a few minutes (very slow) before droppping out and showing
the red cross.
I have tried to repair my operating system but this did not help. Finally I installed a 100% clean install of Windows 8.1, with format,
on the computer. Without installing any applications besides AVG security, the problem still occured after a few days.
When keeping an eye on the available network connections, you can notice that networks around the neighbourhood are slowly dropping out. Untill
only my own network connection is left. Eventually even that one drops out.
Summary:
- Network connection drops out eventually, in the beginning rebooting helps, after a few times it is just dead.
At this point only reinstalling all network drivers works, which gives me a few days again.
- When the internal WiFi drops out, even plugging in a WiFi dongle does not work (or for a few minutes). Which makes
me believe that the problems lies within Windows and handling wireless connection.
- When keeping an eye on available networks, you can slowly see networks dropping away untill my own network drops out.
- When the connection drops out with the yellow triangle, I am unable to open network centre, only a reboot solves this.
- When the connection drops out with the red cross, it just tells me "no networks available". While at the same location,
other devices are given plenty of networks. Even a reboot cannot solve it anymore, only reinstalling drivers does.
- All drivers are up-to-date, I've tried Windows Update, Driver Solutionpack and manually checking driver versions.
- The problem even occurs on a clean install of Windows 8.1, with only AVG installed. The problem does not occure when
booting into safe mode with network capabilities.
- I also notice a increased processor and disk activity, but this could also be because services are keeping trying to use internet?
Laptop specs:
Asus N53SV
Core i5, 6GB RAM, Nvidia GT540M
Windows 8.1 Pro (Came with Windows 7 Premium)
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (8.26.218.2014)
Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter (10.0.0.268)
Getting back to Windows 7 just isn't a solution for me as I am a developer that needs to use Visual Studio 2013, Hypver-V and the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus N53SV
- CPU
- Intel Core i5
- Memory
- 6 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GT540M
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2014