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    Wireless problems with an L502X

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kiraush, Feb 24, 2012.

  1. Kiraush

    Kiraush Newbie

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    My Dell XPS L502X is having problems staying connected wirelessly to about 99% of the modems I connect it to, I've attempted to connect to about 12 or so different modems over the year I've had it (Friends houses and such) and out of all of them only one has been stable enough to play online games on as well as talk on instant messengers.

    These are the last three Troubleshoots I've done after the connection has crashed:
    Any ideas what I could do to fix this?
     
    Kiraush, Feb 24, 2012
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  2. supertoast92

    supertoast92 Notebook Consultant

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    I don't know if it could be as simple as this, but make sure you've got the latest wireless card driver installed from the Dell Drivers website. I was having issues here at my university with the public connection dropping and being extremely slow. Updating the driver worked like a charm, surprisingly enough.
     
    supertoast92, Feb 24, 2012
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  3. Kallzeh

    Kallzeh Notebook Enthusiast

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    This may not be any use at all... but I also have many issues with that card. Most of them were solved by switching Wireless-N off, you can do this in Device Manager by double clicking on the card under Network Adapters, selecting the Advanced tab then selecting Disable under the 802.11n Mode.

    This solved many of my issues, but limited my speed. I usually switch back to Wireless-N or use Ethernet whenever I want to download something.
     
    Kallzeh, Feb 25, 2012
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  4. Metalstream

    Metalstream Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ummm for gaming to prevent rage, you better use a wired connection, it is very frustrating when you're doing for example... arenas in wow and your wireless connection goes down. In general I don't like to use wireless for gaming, I only use it if I am at the university or in the job. In my house I use wired connection.
     
    Metalstream, Feb 25, 2012
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  5. Kiraush

    Kiraush Newbie

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    This has (Seemingly) fixed my problems :O Thank you so much, I love you <3
    +1 Rep :D
     
    Kiraush, Feb 27, 2012
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