7077: Lose internet yet?

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Absolutely no problems with my wireless connection. My problems have been elsewhere.

[chrispinto]

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

Edited April 10, 2009 by chrispinto

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"Festival" sound scheme is damn annoying

Sonata drives me bonkers. Im on Caligraphy right now and its peaceful so far.

[Cheshire Wolf]

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.

[FoxieFoxie]

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

[gregrocker]

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?

[segobi]

just like build 7068 my atheros wlan chip in my notebook is not working correctly..always loosing connection...driver problem...

To fix it I always copy athr.sys from an older build... 7057 or what was it ? dunno... :)

[Cheshire Wolf]

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

Yeah, mistype.

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

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.

[Mike415]

My 7077 x86 using wireless (adhoc ICS from XP) loses connection after a while and needs to be shutdown by holding the power button.

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

I had my internet drop every 12 hours or arround that in builds 7000, 7022, 7048, 7057, 7068 but none in 7077 :D.

[cropcircles]

Running 64 right now with no internet problems. I have a direct connection into my modem bypassing router. It seems so far programs are opening up quicker.

[aron7awol]

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.

[gregrocker]

Am swapping WRT100 (draft N) router with older trusty BEFW11S4 b/g to see if that helps.

It did not help. So I tried updating firmware in WRT100 and it fried the router. RMA #2 in motion. When their hardware fails, at least Linksys tech support comes through.

[mark_st]

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..

[ZombieFly]

happened on my dell lappy in 7057, hasnt since.

I think i installed vendor drivers in that version, i've left everything on the supplied drivers since and not had the issue back.

[Killermac]

I have to install 7077 and see but with 7068 I had no issues with my wired or wireless.

[Unrealistic]

No issues here like on 7068 :). Tested on two different computers, although I did upgrade my router's firmware as well.

[jellio]

The bug defies troubleshooting, hangs on restart requiring hard shutdown, then resets upon start up.

Glad I'm not the only one with this bug, happens for me on 7000 but only after about 20 days uptime, which is probably why some people report not to have seen it.

[gregrocker]

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.

Does this disable sleep altogether? What are the other effects? I am trying it now. Thanks.

[kylejn]

Yeah! I thought I was the only one!

Windows 7 Build 7000 x86.

[mrrampage]

i lost my net in build 7057 but its all good in 7077 so far

[Berserk87]

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

[gregrocker]

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.

[(Spork)]

this just started to happen to my notebook :/

Edited April 12, 2009 by (Spork)