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Weird Wifi Issues on New Laptop

by LOTRFREAK16 Jul 11, 2009 9:13AM PDT

I just recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad Y450 straight from Lenovo. It came with Vista Home Premium 64-Bit. I installed the the usual: AVG, Zonealarm, and a few other things. Now, wifi gets slower the more I do browsing, and eventually pages don't load and the browsers - IE, Firefox, AND Chrome - say that I don't have wifi, even though I have as high a wifi strength as it can go, which is 5 bars. The only way I have fixed this is by restarting the machine, which takes a while, and it tiresome just to get internet. uTorrent works fine, but browsing and using download helpers don't work after a while.
I searched and found that AVG doesn't like Vista, so I turned off the browser stuff, and then it started working again, but now it's doing the same thing it did before.

I need solid wifi for college this fall, and I DON'T want to return this laptop for another one - my budget just can't take that.

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There's the key
by Jimmy Greystone Jul 11, 2009 9:24AM PDT

There's the key: "uTorrent works fine, but browsing and using download helpers don't work after a while."

Your pirating of music/software/movies is your problem. Of course since what you're doing is almost certainly illegal, you're on your own to figure out the why. I'll just say that if you stopped pirating goods, your Internet connection should remain pretty stable more or less indefinitely.

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I DON'T PIRATE USING uTORRENT!
by LOTRFREAK16 Jul 11, 2009 3:02PM PDT

I use uTorrent for legal purposes, like Linux ISOs, Revision3 shows, and stuff like that, that SAYS IT'S LEGAL!
(I just gave uTorrent as an example because that's all I have installed that does stuff like that)

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Torrents over wifi = grief.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 11, 2009 9:47AM PDT

Sorry but that's a fine stress test and nothing more.

Only the best machines can hold up under that. Try doing this under Linux or frankly call the machine's maker and lodge your complaint.
Bob

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I searched and I think I found the problem
by LOTRFREAK16 Jul 11, 2009 3:04PM PDT

I was using AVG and Zonealarm with Vista 64 bit, and people said that Vista didn't like those programs, so I switched over to Avast Free and Comodo Firewall and it's been working fine since then. I'm posting this on the laptop that had problems, and I've now been on for around an hour and it's still strong, when it started having problems after around 10-20 minutes

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I missed it.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 11, 2009 11:57PM PDT

Always suspect what is not stock. I missed the new software you added but that failure is not consistent since I can install AVG, ZA and it will work just fine. Since there are many settings and no one intends to be a IT guru the advice has to be "consider what's not stock."

Avoid torrents since it's a fine mess with a surprise inside too often.
Bob

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