I just inherited a nearly-new laptop that seems to have always had connectivity issues. We thought that the previous owner just had bad wireless, but our current router is brand new and works smoothly with all other computers in the household. It's a Dell Studio 1745 installed with a 64-bit Windows 7 OS. For wireless connection, there's both an Intel(R) Wifi Link 5100 AGN and an external Belkin Basic Wireless USB Adapter. I've been having connectivity issues. Both devices are able to see networks, and you can select to connect to them. But half the time the two of them stay in a cycle of "Identifying" and then disconnecting, or simply won't connect at all when enabled. The other half of the time, one device or another connects to the internet and functions slowly for a minute or two before becoming despondent again, even though the Belkin adapter worked fine on a previous Dell computer we had.
At one point the connecting devices would work for several hours at a time without a problem and reconnect easily when they became faulty (I just switched between one or the other) but now neither one is working for more than a minute or two at a time, and I'm posting this with an Ethernet cable plugged into the side of the laptop.
It's been suggested to me that the wifi card or some of the other internal hardware is "overheating," since earlier it seemed that if I disabled wireless for periods of time, the wifi connection would then work. But as of today that method isn't proving true anymore, and I don't think that's it.
I've tried diagnose and repair, turning the router off and on, restarting the computer, deleting and recreating the wireless profile, disabling and re-enabling the network connections, and TCP/IP reset at the instructions of various threads. None of these solutions have worked. :/
Thanks in advance.
At one point the connecting devices would work for several hours at a time without a problem and reconnect easily when they became faulty (I just switched between one or the other) but now neither one is working for more than a minute or two at a time, and I'm posting this with an Ethernet cable plugged into the side of the laptop.
It's been suggested to me that the wifi card or some of the other internal hardware is "overheating," since earlier it seemed that if I disabled wireless for periods of time, the wifi connection would then work. But as of today that method isn't proving true anymore, and I don't think that's it.
I've tried diagnose and repair, turning the router off and on, restarting the computer, deleting and recreating the wireless profile, disabling and re-enabling the network connections, and TCP/IP reset at the instructions of various threads. None of these solutions have worked. :/
Thanks in advance.