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    Wireless card issue?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by sujinge9, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. sujinge9

    sujinge9 Notebook Evangelist

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    I've had some connection issues recently while SSH ing and just surfing. I had thought it was just the network in my dorm, but today a whole group of people were all SSH ing in a class room and I'm the only one who got "disconnected by peer" error I get all the time, and my downloads grounded to a halt in my web browser and I couldn't ping google. Is there some kind of stress test I can run on my wireless card?
     
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  2. JoeNewberry

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    I can't say that I'm aware of a stress test for wireless cards. You could try speedtests, but based on what you're describing I imagine they'd all come back as very slow.

    It might be a good idea to remove and reinstall your wireless card driver at this point. Even if it doesn't help the problem, it should indicate this is not a wireless card software issue.

    If you can't ping Google, can you ping Google's IP address 74.125.47.147? If that worked, it'd indicate a DNS problem. You'd want to check the TCP/IP settings for the wireless card in that case to make sure a manual DNS server hadn't been set. You could also try setting one and use OpenDNS just to test.
     
    JoeNewberry, Mar 4, 2010
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