Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"

I am running  AMD Ec-1800 APU with Radeon(tm) HD 7340 Graphics .... after reading the 292 and growing issues, others are using both intel and amd - different versions/same problem...? Maybe reverting back to an earlier driver will help. After all, it started happening AFTER I updated the driver, which I was instructed to do yesterday. Thanks for the possible solution - : )

Personally I think it's a great shame that Microsoft have lacked giving adequate support and not just put their hands up with this issue rather than people trying different things and ideas and yet it is a Windows 8.1 problem.

I know that various mods and engineers are a great help a lot of the time but at times rather than go through the "try this/try that" script practically saying that it is "your" PC or settings are at fault it would be nice if Microsoft actually admitted that there is an issue their end rather than advising users to just randomly change settings for the sake of it.

I had XP and was more than happy with that however things change and Windows 8 was my next port of call which is an awful OS for a PC user however at least it worked for what I required. To have Windows update constantly advise me to upgrade to 8.1 then spend the next week trying to sort out issues after that install is nothing short of a disgrace quite frankly.   Mind you nothing comes for free so I guess I should have heeded the warning signs right there!!

Considering the lack of support on this **** up the temptation to contact a National newspaper is definitely there and I do wonder if some bad press may get MS to get this sorted.

Well.. The current status is that since I uninstalled by the setup the driver, removed the installed driver in the device manager too for the Wifi, rebooted, installed the .279(got it from the Asus Support), but even that this alone didn't helped itself, I also had some updates from MS(they came some days later after I got the driver and around one week from now back) and since installed them, since the 07.02.2014 I haven't drops anymore.. Don't want to paint the devil on the wall, but till now no drops. anymore.. I think for Fyreman907, you could have a hardware fault or just driver fault as the win7 driver for the AR9485 are even there not very know for "stability"...  I think that for most user there is a special mixture of driver fault and OS shits..

For all of you with Intel Wireless adapters.

I ran the utility on this page:-

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

And for the first time it detected that there was a newer version of my driver.

I have the Intel Centrino wireless-N105 adapter.

I downloaded and clicked on the exe file and within a few seconds the new driver was installed.

Hope I'm not tempting fate but I have not had any dropouts for 4 days either from boot up or from sleep mode.

This driver is not a dedicated Windows 8.1 it says for Windows 8, but its worked for me and I hope it works for all of those with Intel drivers.

The driver covers multiple Intel adapters but the utility will detect the one you have. 

I really hope this helps you all.

Acer Aspire E1-571

Intel Corei5

Intel Wireless-N105 Adapter

Just thought I would re post my solution in case anyone with INTEL adapters may have missed it.

Mine is still working after doing this.

Again I hope this works for at least some of you.

Acer Aspire E1-571

Intel Corei5

Intel Wireless-N105 Adapter

*TRY RE-INSTALLING YOUR CHIPSET DRIVERS!!!*

The problem is somewhere in the:

Wifi + Chipset + Software

Step 1: Drivers: Uninstall and re-install BOTH your chipset (motherboard) driver and Wifi driver.  Make sure to use a real WiFi driver specific to your hardware - usually found at the manufacturer's website.

Step 2: Don't allow windows to turn off WiFi device :

1.  Go to Control Panel >> Device Manager >> View (menu) >> "Show Hidden Devices".
2.  Click Network Adapters.

3a.  Right-click "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter".

4a.  Go to properties >> Power Management.

5a.  Unclick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

Also in device manager:

3b.  Right-click the name of your WiFi adapter and do the same:

4b.  Go to properties >> Power Management.

5b.  Unclick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

Step 3: Disable Win-8 Metering:

1.  Hover bottom right corner, click settings charm.
2.  At the bottom - click "Change PC Settings".
3.  Click the devices tab on the left.
4.  Scroll down and turn "Download over metered connections" ON.

Step 4: Try Display settings/PCI Link State: 

1.  Open control panel.
2.  Go to System >> Power options.
3.  Set display to turn off *never*.
4.  Click "Change plan settings".
5.  Click "Change advanced power settings".
6.  Go to PCI Express >> Link state power management.
7.  Select off.

If Step 4 changes do not fix the WiFi, undo them.

Step 5: Try changing netsh settings from command prompt: 

Try the netsh commands in this article:

Article.

Step 6: Try changing netsh settings from command prompt: 

1.  Task Manager >> Services tab >> Sort by description "Base Filtering Engine" service, named "BFE".
2.  If it is "Stopped", right click on the "Base Filtering Engine" entry and click "Start".

Step 7: Try Installing all windows updates :

You must be desperate if none of the above attempts worked LOL.

Step 8:  Consider hardware and router issues?