Hi all. i have a problem with the wireless connection on my laptop. Lately the wireless connection keeps dissconecting and reconnecting by itself. It doesnt happen all the time but happens in spells. All the other laptops in my house connect fine so i dont think there's a problem with the router.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Ty

Ring up your ISP and tell them you're having problems.

Also in future, post this kind of thing here:
http://www.funkysnooker.com/forums/computer_chat

cheers jack for that suggestion but i've just done a driver check to see what drivers are out of date. the wireless network adapter has come up as being out of date. I used driver detective to do this but im pretty sure i remember this software only doing the check for free and having to pay for the updates.
Do you know if theres a way i can update for fee?

Go to Start
Right click "Computer"
Go to Properties
Select Device Manager
Click the arrow next to Network Adapters
Right click the adapter you want to update
Select Update Driver Software

Hey mate, I had this with mine, after every so often it would just disconnect, I just turned my router off for approx 1hour and now it's fine

i'd already done this before i used driver checkers. It said that the driver was running fine and didnt need updating but both driver fetch and driver detcetive says it needs updating. At a similar time to when the wireless started playing up the audio stopped working. This to was said to be runnig fine too but it had another option to roll back the driver to when it was working fine which ive just done and now it is working fine. Dont konw if the 2 problems are linked

i have it sometimes too but mine would turn itself off and restart itself and in game when im on 60/90 or 83/90 in disconnect mode it would be fully ready again.

after that its usually fine but happens once or twice a week i think before we got new modem a few months ago it was doing it 3 times a day.

Really annoying aint it lol. The router is off mostly at night so doubting doing that will fix my problem but will try it later on nun the less. Cheers for suggestion m8 and 2 u jack


im also doubting it is a problem with the router as all the other laptop connections in my house seem 2 be running fine.

also on my lappy, the internet won't work, says something about turning switch on?

but my mums friend had a look and said wifi might be broken on it so hopefully will get that fixed

Usually if the audio stops working and you can't fix it alot of times by doing:

Start
Click 'Run'
Type in 'services.msc'
Scroll down to Windows Audio
Right Click 'Properties'
Make sure start up type is on 'Automatic'
And then just click 'Start'

Thats the typical way to fix audio problems if it re-occurs

And with your WiFi keep disconecting

Lets try something simple:

Try this when you are conected and if that doesnt work try it when you loose conection

Start > Run
Type in CMD
Then type these commands:

ipconfig /release (Wait for the connection to release)

Then after doing so type:

ipconfig /renew (And wait for the connection to re-establish)

Make sure you renew you connection after you release it and make sure you type it exactly as I have done!

Also another little tool that will help you out alot is:

Start > run

Now type in EVENTVWR and press ok
Look under 'System'
Look for any errors or warnings that might help you out

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That's all I can think of mate let me know if you find anything

cheers 3 this m8^
what do you mean by start run though?

oh i got it lol.
will try what u sed now.

btw if doesnt disconect for long. couple of seconds gap, but its very annoying

Yeah I think this might help you out also when it does disconnect in the eventvwr see if it's the same errors etc might be able go from there

cheers not got laptop with me atm tho so can't try

Like I said though, I can't guarantee it to work but it's my best shot.

Also post any error messages you can find here atleast then I can have a look see if I can suggest anythnig else

And James yeah you try it aswell see what you can find

i tried the release/ renew thing in run. I mnot sure anything happened accept 4 this txt box thing flashing up. Doing the release 1 tho didnt disconnect the internet if it was supposed 2. I typed in EVENTVWR as well and a summary of
administrative results comes up. It seem spretty confusinf but i clicked on the errors link and of all the things that came up most of which i didnt realy understand lol i couldnt see 1 that looked like it had anything to do with the wireless connection

im tyna copy n paste all the error things but it wont let me

Well for the release / renew thing you need to

Click start
In the search or find box type run
Then when the ltitle box apear type in CMD

Then a big black box should apear

thats where you type it in

ok this lil problem hasnt been hapenin in the last 10 mins or so which is weird coz it bin happening all nyt. Im crossing my fingers that what u sed Si has worked.

If it has i will be very grateful 2 ya

Just wondering how i post pics on here because i wanna do a screen dump of the error list so u can have a look n tell me wht u think if ur willing m8. Is it similar to how u post vids on here because i know how to do tht.

yeah or just make a shortcut and rename it as CMD, used to have fun at college using a shutdown shortcut, we would even shut other computers down in room and try and abort it lol, i would even abort a 2 second shutdown then he typed in 1 second.

good times

anyway if i do the IP thing i should get new IP address?

whats benefits do you know?