Wireless Network Disconnecting

[jjcf89]

Ok so my problem is pretty weird. After connecting to a wireless network after anywhere from 5 minutes to 60 minutes my ability to connect to the internet stops. The wireless connection still shows as full strength. This problem occurs at every place that I have been and used wireless. Which is at least 5 or 6 different locations with different routers and internet suppliers. This doesn't occur when using wired. If I run a ipconfig all the info looks good. If I do a ipconfig /release and then a /renew the internet access will come back but will disappear again after a small amount of time.

This has happened using the drivers that windows 7 provides, the drivers lenovo provides for vista, and the latest drivers that intel provides for vista.

To clarify what I mean by the internet stops this means that when this happens pings to google.com suddenly timeout. And web browsing stops working. But any connection that was made already for example a download will keep downloading or a mmorpg will continue to work.

My computer specs are in my signature and in my profile. If anyone can help me out here I would appreciate it.

 

[ppp]

I had exactly the same problem under Vista. It is definitely a new Win7/Vista networking thing. I don't know what fixed it, although I might suggest disabling IPv6 and running the standard Vista networking stability tweaks such as disabling auto-tuning:

[OC]ModShop - Solve File Copy Problems: Tweak Vista's auto-tuning Network

I no longer experience the problem. Usually to really fix it I had to reboot with the FIRST WLAN connection I connected to being the local one, and then it was fine... but when I went somewhere else I had to reboot as well.

 

[zigzag3143]

weird wireless problem

Ok so my problem is pretty weird. After connecting to a wireless network after anywhere from 5 minutes to 60 minutes my ability to connect to the internet stops. The wireless connection still shows as full strength. This problem occurs at every place that I have been and used wireless. Which is at least 5 or 6 different locations with different routers and internet suppliers. This doesn't occur when using wired. If I run a ipconfig all the info looks good. If I do a ipconfig /release and then a /renew the internet access will come back but will disappear again after a small amount of time.

This has happened using the drivers that windows 7 provides, the drivers lenovo provides for vista, and the latest drivers that intel provides for vista.

To clarify what I mean by the internet stops this means that when this happens pings to google.com suddenly timeout. And web browsing stops working. But any connection that was made already for example a download will keep downloading or a mmorpg will continue to work.

My computer specs are in my signature and in my profile. If anyone can help me out here I would appreciate it.

This only happened since win 7? Was it a clean install? Do you have the correct intel wifi drivers?

Waitning on info

Hope this helps some

Ken

 

[jjcf89]

This only happened since win 7? Was it a clean install? Do you have the correct intel wifi drivers?

Waitning on info

Hope this helps some

Ken

I can't be sure this only happens since windows 7. The laptop came with windows vista but I got rid of it after a day since it was so slow and all the tweaks I could find didn't help. Plus I wanted to mess with windows 7 . I did several fresh installs of windows 7 including the 7000 build and a few builds leading up to RC1. They all had the problem.

As mentioned in my original post I had tried multiple different drivers for the wireless card.

I had exactly the same problem under Vista. It is definitely a new Win7/Vista networking thing. I don't know what fixed it, although I might suggest disabling IPv6 and running the standard Vista networking stability tweaks such as disabling auto-tuning:

[OC]ModShop - Solve File Copy Problems: Tweak Vista's auto-tuning Network

I no longer experience the problem. Usually to really fix it I had to reboot with the FIRST WLAN connection I connected to being the local one, and then it was fine... but when I went somewhere else I had to reboot as well.

I will try the tuning thing mentioned above and let you know.

Rebooting for me doesn't seem to affect it anymore than the ipconfig refresh.

 

[zigzag3143]

wireless problem

I can't be sure this only happens since windows 7. The laptop came with windows vista but I got rid of it after a day since it was so slow and all the tweaks I could find didn't help. Plus I wanted to mess with windows 7 . I did several fresh installs of windows 7 including the 7000 build and a few builds leading up to RC1. They all had the problem.

As mentioned in my original post I had tried multiple different drivers for the wireless card.



I will try the tuning thing mentioned above and let you know.

Rebooting for me doesn't seem to affect it anymore than the ipconfig refresh.

have you checked with lenovo? Maybe its a known problem for them. You could also google your comp and wireless problems. If it happens where ever you go its in the computer.

I have subscribed to this thread so every time its posted to Ill get an email so I will get coming back in

Hope this helps a little

Ken

 

[jjcf89]

have you checked with lenovo? Maybe its a known problem for them. You could also google your comp and wireless problems. If it happens where ever you go its in the computer.

I have subscribed to this thread so every time its posted to Ill get an email so I will get coming back in

Hope this helps a little

Ken

I don't believe lenovo will help me since I am running windows 7 so I didn't try. I did do quite a bit of googleing but didn't find a solution that worked for me.

I understand its the computer. I'm glad we came to the same conclusion.

 

[zigzag3143]

wireless problem

I don't believe lenovo will help me since I am running windows 7 so I didn't try. I did do quite a bit of googleing but didn't find a solution that worked for me.

I understand its the computer. I'm glad we came to the same conclusion.

I would leave out that you are running win 7 though they should have drivers by now. Vista drivers should work but I kinda feel like it some sort of hardware problem like a funkiy wifi card.

Hope Im helping somewhat

Ken

 

[jjcf89]

I did the the tuning that ppp mentioned and the wireless seams a lot more stable. Its been about a week since i did it and I have noticed a big improvement. The problem doesn't seem to be gone completely but it happens so infrequent now that it isn't much of an issue. I appreciate the help and I will let you know if it comes back.

 

[zigzag3143]

wifi prob

I did the the tuning that ppp mentioned and the wireless seams a lot more stable. Its been about a week since i did it and I have noticed a big improvement. The problem doesn't seem to be gone completely but it happens so infrequent now that it isn't much of an issue. I appreciate the help and I will let you know if it comes back.

Glad its better have you run a speedtest lately?

Ken

 

[jjcf89]

Glad its better have you run a speedtest lately?

Ken

Umm no should I?

Well I ran one anyways. 2Mb/s down and .2 Mb/s up.

 

[renobles]

I have basically the exact same issue on an HP 6710b laptop. It happens with both the wireless connection, and the bluetooth connection (tethered to my phone). My fix so far has been to disable and re-enable the network adapter. It seems to be somewhat more stable if I have a ping running constantly. I have not tried the tuning and disabling IPv6 yet. I will try that now and report back.

 

[jjcf89]

I have basically the exact same issue on an HP 6710b laptop. It happens with both the wireless connection, and the bluetooth connection (tethered to my phone). My fix so far has been to disable and re-enable the network adapter. It seems to be somewhat more stable if I have a ping running constantly. I have not tried the tuning and disabling IPv6 yet. I will try that now and report back.

For me having ping running didn't help anything. It just let me know when the connection failed. I hope the tuning thing works for you.

 

[SaS]

Hey guys,

I've been having a similar problem with an Asus PCI WL-138G wireless network card in a desktop running W7 RC 7100. Intel CPU + Asus P5Q series M/B.

I'll try the ppp method.... thanks for the help.

 

[Juggernaut118]

I was having the same problem and it turned out to be the frequency that my router was broadcasting was being interfered with by my cordless phone. I went in the router and changed the frequency that was being broadcast and no more problems.

 

[jjcf89]

Ok looks like i never reported back. My bad. Turning off vista auto tuning as described in the link above seems to have reduced the number of disconnections a great deal. In my case the router wasn't causing the problem because I had the same issue in multiple locations.