Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Windows 8
So, I've been on Windows 8 for a couple months now, and all in all it's not too bad. One trend that has started to irritate me quite a bit is the fact that my WiFi connection continually drops. It's intermittent, but for whatever reason, my adapter just disconnects from the WiFi router. Then, when I go to reconnect it, Windows tells me I can't connect back to the network.
When this first happened, I thought okay, let me try a different WiFi signal. Nope! No matter what other WiFi signal I chose, my adapter basically said it had eaten enough packets. So, what's the classic solution in these circumstances? Reboot! Sure enough, everything started working fine again. I dealt with that for a couple days before I decided having to reboot every time was ridiculous. My next troubleshooting effort led me to re-install the driver. No luck - the problem intermittently persisted. Then, just out of curiosity, I disabled the network adapter and re-enabled it. BOOM! Fixed...temporarily. Now I just have to disable/re-enable the network adapter, which is less irritating than having to reboot, but still a pain.
I didn't have this issue in Win7, so the only thing I can think of at this point is that the driver is causing issues. My driver version is 15.5.0.43. I'm not sure if I can stand to wait for an update. I think I may go back to Win7. Anyone else having this issue?
Update #1: just went to Intel's site, and there's an update for the software suite. To detect if your adapter needs an update, check out Intel's scanning web-app. You'll have to enable Java for the scanning to work, so only do it if you trust Intel.
By the way, here's the output of the scanner:
Windows 8 Pain Point #3 - Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6150
When this first happened, I thought okay, let me try a different WiFi signal. Nope! No matter what other WiFi signal I chose, my adapter basically said it had eaten enough packets. So, what's the classic solution in these circumstances? Reboot! Sure enough, everything started working fine again. I dealt with that for a couple days before I decided having to reboot every time was ridiculous. My next troubleshooting effort led me to re-install the driver. No luck - the problem intermittently persisted. Then, just out of curiosity, I disabled the network adapter and re-enabled it. BOOM! Fixed...temporarily. Now I just have to disable/re-enable the network adapter, which is less irritating than having to reboot, but still a pain.
I didn't have this issue in Win7, so the only thing I can think of at this point is that the driver is causing issues. My driver version is 15.5.0.43. I'm not sure if I can stand to wait for an update. I think I may go back to Win7. Anyone else having this issue?
Update #1: just went to Intel's site, and there's an update for the software suite. To detect if your adapter needs an update, check out Intel's scanning web-app. You'll have to enable Java for the scanning to work, so only do it if you trust Intel.
By the way, here's the output of the scanner:
| Product Detected | Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 | ||
| Current Driver Installed | 15.5.2.0 | ||
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I have my fingers crossed!
Update #2: After updating directly from Intel's site, the problem appears to be fixed. I'll keep monitoring in case the situation changes, but it looks to be corrected. NOTE: anyone expecting the Windows Update to fix this should instead go to the links above to download the driver directly as Windows Update does not correct the problem.
Update #2: After updating directly from Intel's site, the problem appears to be fixed. I'll keep monitoring in case the situation changes, but it looks to be corrected. NOTE: anyone expecting the Windows Update to fix this should instead go to the links above to download the driver directly as Windows Update does not correct the problem.
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