Wifi connection

[MeDuZa]

My wifi connection has sucked since the day they installed it, but only option unless I go back to dial up or switch back to Hughes net and boy it doesn't take long to exceed 300 MB in a 24 hour period, so Hughes net is OUT.

Anyways, so far I love Windows 7 until I have to deal with restarting my wifi. I liked XP's way of repairing the connection. It was fairly fast and usually helped solve my issues. This thing that 7 and Vista does when it repairs, takes forever and I'm lucky if I have a connection at all after it spends 5 minutes examining my system and in the end I have to unplug the primary router, unplug the power supply for the wifi accelerator, unplug the cable between actual outside wifi antenea and the accelerator box and then plug everything back in.

I guess my question is, is it possible to force windows 7 to do what XP did when repairing my connection?

 

[limneos]

Hello Meduza.

To manually do what XP does to repair the connection, do the following:

1. Open Control Panel - Network And Sharing Center - on the left pane click "Manage Wireless Networks", find your wireless network in the list and delete it.

2. Go back to Network And Sharing Center - on the left pane click "Change adapter settings", right click on your wifi connection and select "Disable". Then after 4-5 seconds, right click again and select Enable.

That's the most of it.

 

[MeDuZa]

Thanks so much will give it a try.

 

[readb2weendalll]

wifi is not existent

so i installed windows 7 for my laptop and its great and runs really smoothly and everything, except for 1 problem... I NO LONGER HAVE WIFI!!!...so if someone has the solution to this problem in which will bring my wifi back then that would be awesome.

 

[Aheaton]

What are the specs of your laptop?

 

[zigzag3143]

wifi lost in win 7

so i installed windows 7 for my laptop and its great and runs really smoothly and everything, except for 1 problem... I NO LONGER HAVE WIFI!!!...so if someone has the solution to this problem in which will bring my wifi back then that would be awesome.

Hi and welcome to seven forums

like aheaton said we need everything you know abt your computer and networking (like cable modem router, etc) and if it was a clean install or upgrade.

waiting for info

ken



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[readb2weendalll]

it is a gateway netbook LT30 it has 2gb of ram, amd athalon processor, but im guessing its missing drivers because i went to network controller and it stated that it was missing drivers, but i still dont no what 2 do.

 

[zigzag3143]

wifi

it is a gateway netbook LT30 it has 2gb of ram, amd athalon processor, but im guessing its missing drivers because i went to network controller and it stated that it was missing drivers, but i still dont no what 2 do.

Ok
Im guessing that since your wifi isn't working you are missing a driver for it. what kind of wireless card do you have?

Ken

 

[readb2weendalll]

where would i check 4 that? srry im not that comp savy.

 

[mlevy]

Searching Gateway's site gets me this Atheros wireless driver for that model netbook. No 64-bit version available from Gateway, only Vista 32-bit so that may be where your problem is. You may be able to visit the Atheros site to get a different version that will work but I'm not sure what model card is in that netbook.

 

[zigzag3143]

wifi driver

where would i check 4 that? srry im not that comp savy.

OK you type device manager into search and click it you then go to the network adapters and see if they are there and if they have a yellow triangle over it. could you tell us what is says the kind of network devices you have. to get the driver you need you can go to the gateway website and find your model number and download the wireless driver for your model. Installing it is easy. let us know when you get it

hope this helps and let us know if you need more help

Ken

 

[readb2weendalll]

i looked and it only has the ethernet one available however i saw in what is listed as other devices i saw network controller underneath it with a yellow triangle maybe that has something 2 do with it?