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    Help with killer wireless-n 1103

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Digixia, Dec 19, 2013.

  1. Digixia

    Digixia Newbie

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    Hia, I've had connection problems since I've got my laptop. I've tried tons of different drivers. At first my whole connection would drop out for a few minutes every hour or so if I was doing alot online(Skype and gaming) then I found a driver that worked pretty well and just had bad lag spikes every half hour or so. Since I've recently been playing DOTA2 alot that became a bigger problem so I tried a new driver and now I'm back to my original problem.

    I've looked around and this seems to be a pretty common problem but all the posts I can find usually have mixed results and are from like 2 years ago.

    So could someone recommend a driver to try or a different fix?

    If nothing works soon I'll just end up buying an intel card but I don't want to give up just yet.
     
  2. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    I've been running the latest driver off the killer website plus windows 8.1 and haven't had any major issues. Keep in mind I didn't have problems under windows 7 or 8 either though. :(
     
  3. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I would suggest trying those as well, the latest drivers from the manufacturer's site should work well and get rid of that behavior.
     
  4. amitvig22

    amitvig22 Notebook Consultant

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    I highly recommend using the steps mentioned above, if nothing else works you could just uninstall everything from killer and use the default drivers that windows comes with. They are generic drivers and they seem to do the job sometimes.
     
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  5. ToniHC

    ToniHC Newbie

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    Hi,

    I replaced my killer for one Ultimate-N 6300 card... bye bye problems and better performance :)

    Highly recommended!