Atheros AR9285 constantly disconnecting/reconnecting

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    EasyTether is used to connect my android phone to my computer and use it as a wifi hotspot. I had an idea of connecting my phone to my computer and using it instead of my wireless card while I solved the problem but unfortunately it can only use mobile data and can't connect to wifi whilst acting as a hotspot, useless as I get no network coverage in the house!

    There is also another wireless network called Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, not sure what this is?

    Have reset the router several times which hasn't helped. The router itself is just a cheap router that my broadband company provided. It's a Thomson TG585 v8, you can tell by the reviews here its not a great piece of kit - Thomson TG585v8 Reviews | Thomson Gateway TG585 v8 Wireless-G ADSL 2+ Router. To be fair though I updated the firmware on it about a year ago and haven't really had many problems before this. My local exchange is also 3 miles away (I live in a small village in a rural area) which is supposed to have a very negative effect.

    OK, will try and play around with the router settings and see how that goes. Thanks for your quick and detailed responses, you've been very helpful.
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    Boohbah - My ISP is Plusnet. I'll give them a call in the morning, they've corrected some faults on the line before. Thing is, it only seems to be my laptop with the problem, for example my brother has been playing xbox live for around 2 - 3 hours today using a wireless connection and hasn't has any problems at all.

    Cheers
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    ok, thats a good point that the connection is fine for your brother, nevertheless they may help troubleshoot for you.
    i have had some brilliant tech support from BT.

    just out of interest you havent put a new electrical item anywhere near your laptop since having the problems, or something that may interfere with the signal to your area of the house.

    it may be worth trying the laptop in different areas to see if there is a pattern to the drop out or if it is in a fixed location it does it.
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    I set up a Devolo Dlan 500 kit which uses the ringmain to give a wireless network in parts of the house where the wifi signal won't reach. It worked fine without interfering with my conncection but I have had it unplugged for a few days now whilst trying to solve this problem. Apart from that nothing else has changed.
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    MillsyUK said:
    EasyTether is used to connect my android phone to my computer and use it as a wifi hotspot. I had an idea of connecting my phone to my computer and using it instead of my wireless card while I solved the problem but unfortunately it can only use mobile data and can't connect to wifi whilst acting as a hotspot, useless as I get no network coverage in the house!

    There is also another wireless network called Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, not sure what this is?

    Have reset the router several times which hasn't helped. The router itself is just a cheap router that my broadband company provided. It's a Thomson TG585 v8, you can tell by the reviews here its not a great piece of kit - Thomson TG585v8 Reviews | Thomson Gateway TG585 v8 Wireless-G ADSL 2+ Router. To be fair though I updated the firmware on it about a year ago and haven't really had many problems before this. My local exchange is also 3 miles away (I live in a small village in a rural area) which is supposed to have a very negative effect.

    OK, will try and play around with the router settings and see how that goes. Thanks for your quick and detailed responses, you've been very helpful.
    The Msoft WiFi miniport is used to set up a WiFi hotspot, it's part of every Windows WiFi WHQL driver package so you really did not need the easy tether or the easy tether software for this. There are netsh commands and connectify software made just for this.

    I'm not familiar with this Develo Dlan 500 kit so can't give advice on that but if it's working so well why can't it amplify the signal for this machine?

    I would consider disabling the Bluetooth driver and the Msoft miniport, and also uninstall the software for the tethering, just for testing, you should also test this machine closer to the router with 5 bars signal strength, I'm pretty sure you won't be having any type of disconnection problems with a stronger signal.

    As is the signal strength is in the yellow with poor signal strength, this according to Windows, when you see yellow color and anything past three bars is considered to be a poor signal and will therefore be unreliable at best unless something changes.
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  6. Posts : 14
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    The Devolo device is upstairs at the end of the house so the signal won't reach here. It doesn't amplify the signal it basically creates a new wireless network in another part of the house, one device plugs into the router and a power socket and sends a signal through the ring main, another device is plugged into a wall socket elsewhere and picks up the signal and creates a wireless network.

    Anyway, I think my card is dead, I can't install any drivers anymore and get the following. Have tried all of the drivers that I have on my laptop. Am now using a wired connection which is working fine.



    So I guess all I can do now is buy a replacement card?

    Thanks for all your help!
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  7. Posts : 8,870
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       #17

    I'd be more inclined to believe that the easy tether is causing the problem rather than the card just dying. That is why I said it should be removed or deleted from the system.
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  8. Posts : 14
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       #18

    Hi Chev,

    I have disabled both the bluetooth and the easytether.

    I'm still getting the same error message no matter which set of drivers I try and install.


    Edit: Now completely removed the easytether from my system, no change.
    Last edited by MillsyUK; 13 Jan 2014 at 10:43.
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