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Stupid wireless...
spacerobot
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My wireless internet is being stupid. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. Sometimes it loads the website I want while at the same time not loading a different website I want. My laptop is an HP Pavillion dv6000, and my router is some linksys. I don't think it's my router because my roommates laptop (almost exactly the same) has been working just fine. My internet works fine when I have an ethernet cable plugged into it, but when I unplug it the wireless will work fine for a couple minutes then cut in and out.
What's up with that? It's quite annoying. I tried reinstalling the drivers but it's still kind of doing it again.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
What's up with that? It's quite annoying. I tried reinstalling the drivers but it's still kind of doing it again.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Spyware and Viruses can be written to gather all sorts of info from your PC, and send them back to a location somewhere on the internet, using up your bandwidth and slowing your connection. They can also just be hammering your network looking for targets to propagate themselves to. That sort of activity would use up much of the bandwidth available to your wireless connection.
If you don't have spyware or virus scanners, get them. You can run a free virus check from Trend Micro's Housecall, or download a free A/V product like AVG.
For Spyware, try Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D.
If those come back clean, or your performance hasn't improved after they do their thing, look for firmware and driver updates for your laptop's wireless card.
You should be able to find driers for any windows OS you would reasonably be using here.
Finally, check for firmware updates for your router. There should be a utility within the router's OS to perform a firmware upgrade. On a linksys router, this is accessed through IE/Firefox by going to 192.168.1.1 (by default, unless you changed it). The default password for a linksys router is a blank username and linksys for the password. Specific instructions depend on your exact router model. Linksys.com will be your starting point for that process. Don't know your knowledge level on routers and the like. If you can provide your model, I can probably find more specific instructions if you need them.
Given that his roommate seems to be working fine, the problem is likely specific to software problems with his laptop - which leads me to suspect spyware/virus - or compatibility issues between the wireless card and router - hence the suggestion to upgrade drivers and firmware.
Carry on.
I changed the broadcasting channel, and that hasnt seemed to help much. As I said earlier I updated the drivers for my network card the other day, and that hasn't helped. When I connect wirelessly to other networks it works just fine, so I'm going to try to update the firmware on the router. Hopefully that will help.
I remember when I was rooming with my friend that he would always disconnect/reconnect randomly on his side of the room. I was 5 feet away from him and I never had problems. So, when he moved to a different area of the room, or put his laptop where my desk was, it worked completely fine.