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    [W3J] Wireless problems

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Sudders, Jul 26, 2007.

  1. Sudders

    Sudders Notebook Geek

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    Hi Guys,
    I've been using wireless on my W3J in a varity of places for about a year now without any problems what so ever. Untill this morning when I came into the library where i'm working at the moment and could connect. I could see the network and the reported signal strength was good, but when I tried to connect to it, it either wouldn't connect, or would connect only with no signal strength, only to disconnect the moment I tried to use it. I'm now sat right on top of the access point, and I can connect, but its unreilable, with the signal strength varing wildly. There are about 20 other people here using the network with out any problems.

    Sounds like it might be a problem with the antenna in the laptop? Is this likley? Is it common? and how long do you think it will take to fix? I'm in the middle of writing my thesis at the moment and can't really afford to be without my laptop for long at all.

    Cheers,

    Ian
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    Sudders, Jul 26, 2007
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  2. rafiki6

    rafiki6 Notebook Consultant

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    I know this may sound a little childish and I am not being condeseding or anything but did you try restarting your laptop. I had the same issue before and all I did was restart and my situation was back to normal with good signal strength.

    Otherwise just uninstall and resintall the network card. It could be a corrupt registry or driver isssue.
     
    rafiki6, Jul 26, 2007
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  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Right, before taking severe actions like RMA, first try the obvious driver reinstallation solution, and then perhaps the entire OS recovery. Both of these take (much, much) less time than an RMA.
     
    E.B.E., Jul 26, 2007
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  4. Sudders

    Sudders Notebook Geek

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    I've started noticing some other problems now. Whenever I try and do anything that uses the CPU, core 1 goes to 100%, but core 2 stays completely flat, even when I'm trying to do two things at once. I'm sure it didn't used to do that. Its causing things like audio to break up on windows media or real player and all my DVD burns to fail.

    I will try to try an operating system re-install, but its going to be difficult since I can't burn any of my stuff to DVD.
     
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  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    But if you have a two-partition setup, you can copy all your data to the 2nd partition (where it should be anyway, btw), and then you can recover to the 1st partition only.

    Or use an external HDD if you have one.
     
    E.B.E., Jul 27, 2007
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  6. Rosemarycane

    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    I seconded the notion of reinstalling the wireless driver and program. I had the same problem with my W3J and IBM T60. Once I reinstalled the drivers, the problem went away. HTH
     
    Rosemarycane, Jul 27, 2007
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