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Laptop connection problems - please help
Ive been having the same problem for some time now I can't find a solution.
I have a new samsung r530 laptop with windows 7. Ive connected to my home network as normal but my laptop disconnects when I use it in the garage. My old HP laptop worked fine in there and its meant to have an inferior WLAN card.
I have an Atheros AR9285 WLAN card in my samsung and it can pick up my network intermittantly in the garage with a maximum 2 bars but it will not connect. I have the latest driver ( 8.0.0.366 ) installed.
Why did my old broadcom device find it easily in win XP but my new one cannot in W7.
Do I need to replace the card of get a usb device for it? Do I need a better router ( I have a sky netgear DG834GT with the latest firmware.
Or is there a network setting I need to change to pick it up.