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So my laptop randomly started having Wi-Fi issues. When I connect to my home wireless at first it says "no internet" then after about 5 minutes it finally gains internet access but it is very slow. On Speedtest.net it scores 3Mb/s whereas my desktops (also running wireless) run around 35Mb/s. The Laptop is an Alienware M11X R2 on it there's this program called DW WLAN utility and it has a diagnostics I can run. When I run it it usually fails on the Internet IP ping test and sometimes on the Gateway IP ping test.

What's funny though, is my laptop connects and runs perfect on the WiFi at my University, despite it still failing the Gateway and/or the Internet IP ping test.

 

So far what I have tried to fix it is:

- Reset my router

- Restore the router to factory defaults

- Restart my laptop

- Uninstall and reinstall the wireless driver for my laptop

 

Help me please!

Thank you

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Any other other wireless devices at home? Sounds like wireless on the router may be the culprit...

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I have this problem, but not as bad. I am pretty sure that there will be some other signal which is interfering with the wireless network in your house. try the connection at different points around the house and see how it changes. Unfortunately if it is interference there isn't really much you can do other than chaging to a standard like AC or 5 GHz N. but that might not be possible for you, i dunno how much money you have to spend on this stuff. I have tried repeters in my house but they don't fix the problem so i wouldn't really reccommend them unless it is pure range that is affecting the connection

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If your router is a newer EA series from Linksys then it's the router and the only way to fix that is return it and get a Netgear or Asus as it's the firmware that's that problem and Linksys (now owned by belkin) doesn't want to fix it which is why I returned my EA6400.

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