Outdated? It has just 1 year, what the hell? My previous laptop was a Toshiba, from 2004, and the WiFi card has been working GREAT till the end of the laptop's life. AND, Intel puts the 7260 WiFi cards in the
top of their cards, and that makes me think that they are the more reliable, expensive, fast and better cards they sell for laptops.
I don't know if it's the card or my laptop's antenna. I'd like to install this 7260 in another laptop, and see if the strength of the signal is as good as it should be. Man, my almost 10 years old Intel WiFi card has twice the range of this one. That's not right, that can't be possible.
I don't know neither if it's a problem between my 7260 and my modem, but any other device I have works great and can connect to the modem from far away. I got to call to my ISP and see if I can change the channels or something to fix this. But as I say, it's weird that only my laptop is not working (low WiFi range) as it should be if the modem is not configured correctly.
If I were you I would go to a buddies house and connect to their WIFI. then slowly move farther and farther away from their Wireless access point. If you lose the signal after only a short distance you know its an issue with your laptop. If you get a good signal from a distance then its an issue with your laptop and your wireless access point.
Yeah, I have to do that.
If your laptop can't get a good signal anywhere
Only if I'm in the same modem's room, the signal is nice and I have no problem at all. When I go to the next room and try to connect, there's very poor signal, and I can't connect at all, not even once. Windows just shows: "Can't connect to this network". I've tried to connect through Intel's PROSet Utility, but it's the same problem, can't connect.
NEWS: I've done a factory reset, quite overkill. BUT, the problem is "solved". I can connect to my modem now from the next room, but the range is still so poor and low compared to other devices. I've not updated the stock drivers, so I don't change anything related to the range of the WiFi card. Nevertheless, I have been using this laptop for 4 months with the latest drivers available, and the range was the same I have now, before the problem occurred. I don't understand it, cause I tried 2 times these same drivers 4 days ago, before restoring, and the range didn't improve anything.
If you get a good signal everywhere but at home its a compatibility issue between your laptop and the new access point
Yeah, but as I've said, 3 smartphones, and a W8.1, W7, and WXP laptops can connect perfectly to the modem.
And here's a question:
If the antenna is the problem, replacing the 7260 N WiFi PLUS Bluetooth card by another one, let's say Intel's 7260 AC (I don't know if I should trust on Intel's Wireless devices again) won't fix the problem, right?
I've read that the antenna is in the screen, and not in the card.
If I replace the WiFi card, I think I have to unlock BIOS.
But I shouldn't have to change my WiFi card, damn,it's a new laptop, it can reach 300Mbps, it should be nice, it's Intel.