7077: Lose internet yet?

By gregrocker
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chrispinto

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See now prior to 7000, Vista on same laptop which is fairly high spec would, at "distance" from the wireless router (15 metres as crow flies, but through around 6/7 walls and ceilings) give me wireless internet connectivity dropouts of which were "fairly" common for me, in the sense that i'd lose internet (although not actual network) connectivity around 3-4 times a week.

I have to say though, 7000 (the only build i had ever tried until 4 hours ago) dropped out almost 2-3 times an hour, sometimes for seconds others for a couple of minutes. It made BBC iPlayer almost unuseable, and websites not render properly (missing images, frames, layouts not formatted properly) because of data getting "lost" on the way.

I tested my theory a week or so ago by taking my laptop to within a few feet of the router to find the same problems occured under 7000 (but altogether eliminated under Vista).

I now have installed 7077 - I have to say from _my_ experience these issues have gone. More surprising is that so far is that my internet connection, (or rather wireless connection) seems very much more stable by a very noteable amount in terms of both reliability and throughput speed in communications (downstream and up) over the internet. Whereas under 7000 i'd achieve 100k/sec at best (admittedly it would on rare (i mean rare) occasion hit 300k/sec mark) and Vista would roughly achieve 140k/sec-350k/sec 7077 has consistently given me 450-500k/sec for the last 2 hours as i've downloaded all the (free) updates and applications i use.

Luck? Coincidence? I'm not sure. It's entirely possible that it's simply a case of someone having repositioned the router antennae at a slightly/majorly different angle or position thus bringing me into the 802.11 G signal "donut" a bit more.

Or it could be that drivers/updates/enhancements have been responsible for my apparent issue "fix"

Either way so far, 7077 is very much a winner for me.

One last thing though..

"Festival" sound scheme is damn annoying

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Cheshire Wolf

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You guys need to update the drivers on your wireless cards, as well as the firmware on your routers.

I've had absolutely no problems whatsover with my Intel N card and my Tomato-loaded Buffalo router.

Well, I fixed it, and I did nothing to my router. It was quite simple actually. It seems that my boardcom drive was automatically updated in Windows Update center. When I switched it back to the stock drive my internet worked perfectly.

To switch back you go to the device manager center. You need to find your soundcard and 'update' the drive. Choose 'I Have Disk' than the bottom option. It than listed two options for me. One was the updated version of the drive, and the other was the stock version. I choose the stock version and it started working.

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FoxieFoxie

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Every build after 7000 has a certain per cent of users experiencing random loss of internet both on wired and wireless connections. The bug defies troubleshooting, hangs on restart requiring hard shutdown, then resets upon start up.

Even though daily builds are notorious for having bugs not yet worked out, it seems strange this same bug would exist through so many builds.

Waiting to hear if it repeats in 7077.

Can't confirm on 7077 as not installed yet, but with 7068, yeah

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gregrocker

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Well, I fixed it, and I did nothing to my router. It was quite simple actually. It seems that my boardcom drive was automatically updated in Windows Update center. When I switched it back to the stock drive my internet worked perfectly.

To switch back you go to the device manager center. You need to find your soundcard and 'update' the drive. Choose 'I Have Disk' than the bottom option. It than listed two options for me. One was the updated version of the drive, and the other was the stock version. I choose the stock version and it started working.

Sound card was knocking out internet? Do you mean Broadcom net adapter?

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Thank god I'm not the only person having this problem.

I've been having connection problems with every build since 7000 (running 7068 just now)

I have to physically reboot my router to get the connection working again.

I don't think it's a problem with my router because my iPhone, PS3 & Xbox 360 can still connect to the internet when the windows machine can't.

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mark_st

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Yep just starting happening. Worked for about 2 hours after installing 7077 X-64. New router which works fine on Vista, plus no new firmware available. Im hard wired but the rest of the machines are wireless and they are working fine. Like someone said welcome to the world of BETA.

PS: Forgot to mention this is the first build that this problem has occured..

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Berserk87

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Well, I fixed it, and I did nothing to my router. It was quite simple actually. It seems that my boardcom drive was automatically updated in Windows Update center. When I switched it back to the stock drive my internet worked perfectly.

To switch back you go to the device manager center. You need to find your soundcard and 'update' the drive. Choose 'I Have Disk' than the bottom option. It than listed two options for me. One was the updated version of the drive, and the other was the stock version. I choose the stock version and it started working.

thats what i was goin to do, good to know

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gregrocker

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Unchecking "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" in the network adapter power management properties fixed this problem for me. Give it a try.

Sorry to say that this did not work either in my 7077. Retreating to 7000 partition on this machine until another possible fix comes along.

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