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Windows 7 wireless drops
My wife's Windows XP laptop hard drive finally failed, so we bought her a new HP g60-630us, with a built in wireless adapter. Almost immediately there were issues:
1. Slow wireless network performance: Internet speed sites showed her machine to be 10x slower than my five-year-old HP pavilion zd7000 laptop. This was repaired by updating the wireless drivers (two upgrades were required to get it to current levels).
2. Intermittent connection loss: Her machine drops either the wireless connection and/or the internet at random intervals. Nothing to date has fixed this, though some of the things I have tried have made it slightly better:
a. Disabling power saving features for the computer.
b. Disabling power saving features in the wireless device driver.
c. Disabling IP6.
d. Disabling extraneous features from the wireless driver whose purpose seem to be IP6-related or device-discovery related.
e. Disabling DHCP, assigning a fixed IP address
When I look at her machine from the firewall, I see its name disappearing at intervals, unlike our two hardwired file servers or my own machine. Also, when pinging her machine I see terrible delays and lost packets, something I don't see when pinging our file servers:
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.80:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 94, Lost = 6 (6% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 136ms, Average = 14ms
This driving her crazy and she is making my life miserable. How do we fix her computer so it doesn't randomly drop?