You are SO right! MICROSOFT. Do you even look at these forums ? Where's your solution ???
Hi Bianca, I think you just have to keep updating the drivers eventually it seems they do get better.
Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"
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Since installing 8.1 Pro, I'm having issues with WiFi dropping internet connectivity and always showing "Limited" when clicking on the system tray icon. When I troubleshoot the problem using the system tool it is always the gateway that is faulty. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the device drivers several times, installed the newest drivers directly from Intel, restarted the computer, etc. I can restore connectivity by turning WiFi off then back on, but the connection will drop at what seems to be random intervals. My applicable system specs are as follows;
Lenovo Y510P Laptop
Windows 8.1 Pro
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
Apple Time Capsule router w/newest firmware
Needless to say this is quite an irritating bug that didn't exist prior to the update to 8.1 I hope this can be resolved quickly. Thanks!
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2014-11-26T23:58:09+00:00 You are SO right! MICROSOFT. Do you even look at these forums ? Where's your solution ???
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2014-11-23T20:13:19+00:00 Go here to get more info about changing the frequency
www.vindamedia.com/windows/helplist choose the section about WiFi. You can skip to the signal section.
Usually, if the frequencies are interfering with it that much there is a little troubleshooting. Please start a new question, on top of this page under participate.
Copy a link to the URL of the new question so I can find it and I will help you get your WiFi issue solved
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Anonymous
2014-11-23T15:43:41+00:00 After trying numerous "fixes" from everyone else and having my wifi box replaced, I found the culprit in my house. My issue is caused when I turn on the baby monitor in my home. Turn it off, no problems. My question now is why did the baby monitor never interfere with any of my computers until I bought my Lenovo All in One touch screen with 8.1. Any ideas on this; how can I run my computer and baby monitor at the same time?
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2014-11-23T09:37:40+00:00 Actually, I found a solution to this problem. I have never encountered this problem since I did this (2 Weeks). Before that I had en countered this problem a couple of times in a day. My wifi driver is Intel 7260-N
- Plug your ethernet cable and disable your wi-fi. DO NOT OPEN YOUR WIFI ADAPTER ON YOUR COMPUTER UNLESS EVERYTHING HAS FINISHED!
- Download your latest wifi driver from downloadcenter.intel.com
- (This is the most important part) Uninstall your old wifi driver, but if you just install it once it wont unistalled completely because windows will use previous drivers that you installed before even you install the new ones. So Click uninstall again and again, until you see only one microsoft wifi driver and one intel driver (windows won't let you to uninstall these two).
- Restart your computer (AGAIN, DON'T ENABLE YOUR WIFI ADAPTER!! IF YOU ENABLE IT WINDOWS WILL AUTOMATICALLY USE THE OLD ONES!)
- After restart, install the driver that you downloaded. After the install process, open device manager, network adapters, right click intel wireless-n 7260 and click properties, click advanced tab and make u-apsd support disable and also ht mode disable. Click OK.
- Restart your computer.
I hope it works.