signal strength

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    Windows Vista Connection in one room but not in another

    I just got a new HP laptop with windows 7 home and I get excellent connection in my living room (where my desktop is located) but as soon as i go into my room i still am connected but get 'no network access'. Then in a minute it totally disconnects. On an older laptop that is windows XP works...
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    Windows 7 Cable YES WiFi NO orange livebox windows 7

    Hi all i have just purchased a dell inpiron 5415 laptop with windows 7. I cannot get it to connect to my livebox with wifi. I pluged it in with ethernet cable and it worked instantly i didnt need to click on anything. My laptop picks up my livebox with full signal. Enter in my secerity key and...
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    Windows 7 Sudden loss of internet speed: 20Mb to 1Mb.

    Hello i have installed windows 7 64-bit and, although i am not certain, i think i had good internet speed before i put the 64-bit version. Initially i decided not to use the 64-bit version because i couldnt get the driver of my external USB wi-fi card to be recognized. It's an SMC WUSB-G EZ...
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    Windows 7 Can't connect to router but in XP i can

    I need help badly, my wlan usb adapter can't connect to my router, but when I try it on XP (dual boot) it connects fine, it says it can't find network but in XP the signal strength is v. good. I'm using windows 7 professional 64-bit, i just installed it a day ago, i can connect thru wire. Taking...
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    Windows 7 Wireless connections

    Hi all Since the first version of windows 7 was released to the public back in Jan 09 i have been using windows 7, and having upgraded from the beta, to RC, and then to RTM with clean installs. I am now having problems with low signal strength on my wifi card in my laptop, it is up and down in...
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    Windows 7 what the hell did they do to the Release Canidate?

    i clean installed Windows 7 RC from using Windows 7 Beta for the last few months and im not happy. heres a quick list as ive only been using it for a few hours: - i loved the feature where you could hover over something on the task bar and it would show a preview of the window. - i loved that...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Internet surfing/downloading SLOW

    I installed my driver for my network card and I have a 5/5 signal 100% as always. I am running the 64-bit version. Took about 35 sec to fully load the youtube homepage. I was downloading an add-on for Firefox and it was going about 10kbps. I switched over to my Vista 32-bit which I am dual...
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    Windows 7 Build 7127 seems to have fixed my network problems

    On the 7100 build I was having issues where the network would just simply stop working. This same hardware worked perfectly with xp, vista, server 2K3 and 2K8. What happened was I would still be associated to the router but I'd get the little exclamation mark on the signal strength task bar...
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    Windows 7 Modem Dropouts

    When ever I am running a Windows 7 machine my modem drops out randomly. :mad: OS: Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 Laptop: Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN, Driver V 12.1.0.14 Desktop: DLINK DWA-520 Wireless 108G Modem Model: DLink DVA-G330S Firmware Version: V2.10B01T01.AU.B.20071129 Drivers...
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    Windows Vista internet speed suckage

    Has anyone noticed a serious SUCKAGE of internet speed with 7022? my torrents are taking FOREVER to d/load. and i don't mean overnight, i mean DAYS, and utorrent indicates weeks to finish d/loading. I called my ISP when i had 2 second Ping times, and they reprovisioned my cable modem. It...
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    Windows 7 Loss of signal strength

    Since upgrading my NC8000 Laptop to W7 (from XP) I have noticed a huge reduction in wireless signal strength. Once I could sit in the lounge room and surf on the laptop, now I'm lucky to get 10 foot away from the AP and lose connectivity straight away. Has anyone else eXPerienced this?
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    Windows 7 Wireless internet conection problem

    Hello 7 users I too am suffering with wireless conection problems under win7 beta. I have beta7 on a test machine with the following spec: GIGABYTE GA 7N400L-1 M/B AMD 2400 CPU 1 GB RAM NVIDIA 7300 GT 40GB HDD D-LINK DWL-G122 WIRELESS G USB ADAPTER In device manager there are 3 devices with...
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    Windows Vista ad hoc with vista?

    I have an odd networking situation. our cable is indefinately out and we dont want to get a landline just for dsl. so we bought a router for our neighbor with cable internet and pay to use her network. but i cannot get enough of a signal on my powerbook to connect very well (probably because its...