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Acer 5750 (Broadcom wireless) dropping
Hello all,
I've had this problem on and off for almost a year. My Acer 5750 laptop will randomly drop the connection to my router/modem.
Often I will be browsing on Firefox or another browser when suddenly the page requested will crawl along and a "page cannot be displayed" will occur. Often if I wait a few minutes, shut down the browser or laptop, reboot and it's good to go again.
The odd part is Windows will not always show a bad connection on the wireless icon on the toolbar. Sometimes there will be the yellow connection issue, but often the connection shows as working fine.
I have tried many times with a clean install of Windows Home 64bit, clean and up to date drivers from Acer. I updated the BIOS a few days ago but the problem remains.
It is not a major problem but it occurs at least a few times a day.
I also tried putting linux on the hard drive for a few days, no dropped connections but then again it was not tested very much.
The driver used is Broadcom 5.100.235.19
The actually modem/router setup seems to be fine as I never get dropped connections on my Android tablet and devices. The wife never complains of problems on her Samsung laptop which is running Windows 7 Stater, her Android tablets are good too!
I am not entirely convinced running Linux resolved the issue as I never fully tested it.
Possible network adapter dying?
Would love some suggestions, thank you.