Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"

Morning all,

For those of you that have Intel drivers this may be of some help, it worked for me.

Go here

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/wireless

Run the small utility and see if it detects a newer driver rather than using windows system to search.

On mine it found a driver that was newer although NOT a 8.1 driver

The driver version that fixed mine is:-    15.10.5.1 date 31/10/2013

This is for several Intel adapters so just make sure it will cover yours.

Hope this helps

Thanks Microsoft still ignoring us all, it wont go away!

ok.. I still can't figure out the f.....g drops.. It is now between 2 - 5 drops, but still the drops sucks.. even did a clean install, got the 8.1 and even with latest drivers from the vendor, no way.. still need to check if the latest .276 will help, but it didn't helped before, so not really impressed.. What I am impressed is the ignorance of all sides, the Vendors of the Laptops, the Vendor of the HW, the vendors of the OS and everybody says only GTFO and cry to someone else, till from time to time without warning someone release a driver and some issues are solved.. Is this the new style to use the customers as guini pigs..?!?!

I think this whole matter is complex and caused by several problems, both in OS and HW+drivers. BUT - I suppose the root cause and hence responsibility would need to be pinned to Microsoft. They've done some serious and well meant changes to the Wifi/IP stack handling that went wrong. This has affected a lot of vendors and end users in a very negative manner, and this ecosystem does not resolve the problems. The whole situation is IMHO really bad indeed for Microsoft and seems to be poorly understood and handled. I am bound to be wired and in order to be liberated With a functioning WiFi, it seems that I need to find another platform where I get screwed in a lot more pleasant fashion :-)

I was having the same issue and finally found a solution.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dennis\_schnell/archive/2013/08/31/windows-8-1-wifi-showing-quot-limitied-quot-or-quot-no-internet-access-quot.aspx

This is quoted from their site.

Hi guys, i tried all the above methods but none of them worked for me. However i did find smt that worked, which is to revert your network adapter driver back to an older version instead of the one installed by windows 8.1.

You can do this by going to device manager, right click on your network adapter, go to update driver, then "browse my computer for driver software, then"let me pick from a list of...." , uncheck the "show compatible hardware" checkbox and finally select the older version of current driver (if you dont know which, just use trial and error).

I went up a version instead of down, but the 1705 version of the driver seems to be the issue.

 I did this with Envy 15 touch W8.1 and it's worked for a couple days now at least.  I had already downloaded drivers so there were copies and I just selected "driver name#2" on the 'compatible drivers' list. - Thanks!

my issue is that i have wifi, but it dropps me from time to time.. sometimes twice a day, sometimes twice an hour.

WLAN AutoConfig service failed to connect to a wireless network.

Network Adapter: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG Wireless Network Adapter

Interface GUID: {xxxxxxxxxx}

Connection Mode: Automatic connection with a profile

Profile Name: Cisco Secured

SSID: Cisco Secured

BSS Type: Infrastructure

Failure Reason:The driver disconnected while associating.

RSSI: 255

I have done and implemented all and every in the forums taken solution, but no way...