I think I have the answer that everyone is looking for!
After reading and trying all of the forum post suggestions, I was still having the same intermittent problems that everyone with a Dell Venue 8 Pro was experiencing. My WiFi would switch to limited connection (No Internet) and my Bluetooth mouse and Bluetooth
keyboard would stop working.
I found that none of the suggestions improved the problem. I have installed and uninstalled the Microsoft updates that were mentioned. I have reset back to factory, and tried all the different settings, including disabling the N on my router and only using
b/g. That helped the most, but I felt like I wasn’t getting to use the improved speed of my N router.
I could always get everything to work without rebooting my tablet... I just had to go into device manager and click on the network adapter and disable then enable the drivers and i was good to go until it messed up again (sometimes it was minutes, and sometimes
it was a day or two, but it was always random seeming and worst when I was using the internet and my microsoft sculpt bluetooth mouse and fintie bluetooth keyboard.)
The following is a list of steps I took that seems to have fixed my problems, and I still have N speeds through my WiFi now. We have four Dell Venue 8 pros in my household, and they were all having the same problems as listed above. All four tablets were
in different states of update, and some had been reset to factory and others hadn’t. Some had the power management settings in device manager set so that they couldn’t be turned off to save power (I think this is still a good idea). All of the had previously
been update on the dell website with the latest wifi drivers and bios A09 (as of 1-5-2015). This is a MUST!
Then Just follow the following steps and your intermittent wifi and Bluetooth problems should be a thing of the past!
Open control panel
Click on Network and Sharing Center
Click on Change Adapter Settings
Double Click on your WiFi adapter
Click on the Button that says Wireless Properties
Click to enable the check box “Enable Atheros Connections Settings”
Click on the Configure button
Make sure both 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz boxes are checked
Click to disable the check box “Enable Radio Measurement”
Click to disable the check box “Enable Advanced Roaming Setting”
Click OK
Click OK again
Click on Properties Button
Click on Configure Button
Click on the Advanced Tab
Click on Roaming Aggressiveness
Set the value to 1. Lowest
Click OK
Click on Close
Close Network Connections
Close Network and Sharing Center
Restart your tablet and you should be good to go!
I am so excited that this seems to have fixed my problems, it has been several days (with heavy use) and everything seems to be going OKAY… This tablet is awesome, except for this one (PAST – I hope!) problem. Please come back and let everyone know whether
this worked for you or not, because then we can all know!
Also, let us know how you are using your tablet:
Do you use Bluetooth for a mouse (what brand)?
Do you use a Bluetooth keyboard (what brand)?
What other Bluetooth devices do you have connected?
Are you using the Dell Active Stylus?
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