Questions tagged [wifi-driver]
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Acer Aspire V5 wifi connection drops & proximity issue
I am having a weird problem on Windows 10 with my wireless adapter recently. My wifi connections perform very poorly when my laptop is not in line-of-sight with the router. As soon as there is ...
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Dell XPS l502x wi-fi speed is dead slow
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I have purchased a new Dell XPS L502x laptop which has Windows 7 Home 64-bit which has this Wi-Fi Option: Intel ® Centrino ® Advanced-N 6230 (2x2 agn + Bluetooth)
And I have 4 Mbps Internet ...
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Windows 8 - WiFi adapter finds no wireless networks! ends up with "No networks found"
I have a Dell Inspiron n5110 machine with Intel Celerino WiFi N1030.
Its been about two weeks I have started using Windows 8. Formerly, I was using Windows 7 Home premium in which I had no any ...
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How to force Windows 7 to disable driver signature enforcement?
I want to boot windows 7 every time with "disable driver signature enforcement". Because every time I didn't do so, my WLAN adapter "Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377" didn't work.
I tried bcdedit.exe hacks ...
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Installing Generic USB Wifi Dongle to OSX
I purchased an old Mac Pro to use as a home server. It has no WiFi card.
I have a generic Wireless N USB dongle. I got it a long time ago and it's not branded. Windows installs the drivers ...
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Installing a driver's INF file?
I've been fixing a friends computer which had all manner of things wrong with it, so I just wiped the whole thing and reinstalled Windows 7 (with the debugged service pack update).
Everything was ...
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My Samsung R480 laptop freezes for short and inconsistent periods of time
I have a Samsung R480 laptop running Windows 7. It's great, I love it to death, but every so often it'll start having, for lack of a better term, "hiccups". It would freeze completely, emit a loud ...
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How to assign an INTERNAL Wifi Adapter to the guest OS in VM?
I'm having trouble assigning my Host Wifi Adapter (which is installed internally in my laptop) DIRECT to the guest OS [Windows XP x86] in the Oracle VirtualBox VM.
I tried so many ways, like Bridging,...
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Strange issue in Wi-Fi in laptop , Weak signal
I had been facing issues with Wi-Fi signal in my laptop (2 day from now) and thought it to be some issue of drivers. I installed the latest drivers but it came out to be of no use. then i thought it ...
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Identifying software affecting download speed
I am trying to troubleshoot a family members PC that is getting a very poor download speed compared to all other computer on the network.
All other computers get around 23Mb/s down 4Mb/s up. But this ...
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Asus N56JR keeps dropping the Wireless from time to time on Windows (8.1 and 10)
I have an Asus N56JR which is a nice device except for the Wireless. Since the beginning it loses the connection to my router from time to time. Since I have another mobile device with Wireless ...
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Can I use my laptop's wifi card in my new desktop PC?
There are already variations of this question, but I haven't found the help I'm looking for.
I have a Gateway NV series laptop that doesn't work anymore. I bought it only a year ago and I think the ...
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How to solve no wifi at all on laptop? [closed]
I am using an HP laptop running on Windows 10 which seems to have no wifi connection at all. In Windows settings, there is no wifi option under Network & Update.
I tried to uninstall the network ...
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How to monitor and troubleshoot WiFi connection problems?
I have a problem with WiFi connection at my home.
Wifi on my desktop computer on Windows 10 ocassionally slows down, but it seems to happen more often when my people come from work.
My laptop on ...
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