Y410P WIFI Help.

So I just pulled my Y410p out to play with today after not using it for almost 6 months and the WIFI is so spotty it is unusable. My cell phone and tablet both had no issue with connection. The Y410p would say connected, fail pings, get responses from the router saying the host was unreachable and sometimes let a rogue ping through. If I tried to change to my 2nd wifi signal then it would time out and not be able to connect to either until I either swore loudly at it for 5 minutes or rebooted (yes it worked twice just waiting 5 minutes, but the swearing helps). I have read so many fixes online for this time from all of the place, some people say you need to disable IPV6, some say you need to disable Bluetooth, some say you need to turn your router security from WPA to WPA2, or vice versa. I am hoping that maybe with the amount of time this laptop has been out there might be a consensus on what the problem is and how to fix it.

Also if there is no reasonable fix, do these problems exist on clean installs without the Lenovo bloatware? Do these problems exist after one installs the bios hack that removes the whitelist and adding a different wifi card?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.

-AGoff

 

First try uninstalling the Intel WiFi drivers and use the default Microsoft provided ones and see if that works. If that doesn't fix it, try downloading the latest drivers from Intel's website.

I personally have had several issues with WiFi on this laptop and they've all been driver related ones. WiFi has been flawless in Linux though which I find pretty amusing.