Ive just bought a Dell 660s mini tower (Windows 7), but Im getting a low Wifi signal compared to my laptop. The wifi bar varies between 3 and 1, whereas on my laptop it is consistently 5, and Logmein keeps dropping out when I connect to the 660s. The wifi card is a Dell 1506. I have installed the latest drivers. I have tried changing the channel on the router but it didnt make a difference.
View 5 Replieshow do i start the inbuilt wireless on my 660s ? i try using hotspot but i get no internet flow though it shows on and if i try setting it up through windows networks it doesnt detect any router.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a couple of Ethernet cables, however a lot of them have their latches broken off but that hasn't stopped my laptop from working but it isn't just that when i plug in a Ethernet cord with the latch into the port of the 660s no lights show up, plus when i put in another cable, i guess some regular cord , i do get lights but that doesn't connect me to the internet...and i am just confused.
So what i am trying to say is: Is there something wrong with the port?
Do I need to change my Ethernet Cable?
Or is there something else completely wrong that i am not seeing?
I just got a new Inspiron 660s last week and have been having some unusual connectivity issues with it. After suffering for a day or so with a painfully slow wireless connection (the status showed the signal was "excellent" but the speed of downloads or loading web pages was dreadful; meanwhile my older Inspiron Mini in roughly the same location blazes along and has for years with no problems), I decided to try just going with a wired connection. This fixed the speed issue to say the least, but now the connection drops for a few seconds every five minutes or so, then immediately reconnects. If I were just web-surfing, it wouldn't impact me all that much, but the activities I enjoy, like playing games online and streaming music, require a signal that doesn't keep cutting out. I've tried updating the drivers, but I'm told I have the most up-to-date drivers. I've tried unchecking the power-saving options and I've tried unchecking IPv6 and just about every other solution I've come across in my web searches, but nothing works. When I get home from work this evening I may try uninstalling and reinstalling the device drivers. Barring that, I may just go pick up a USB wireless adapter-- I used a cheap Belkin one in the same location on an old Dimension desktop years ago and it worked great-- and see if that works.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have upgraded from Win 7 to Win 8 recently at my new Dell PC.I have upgraded my PC Drivers and get the latest Win8 update on line.My ISP has came up with a latest version of 4G Connection Manager (software) to allow me to login to the Wireless Network.I am using a small pen like modem called Dongle.
The performance of the new Connection Manager is uncertain, sometime I can logon to the network easily after starting, but sometime I don't.The searching for the network only last for 3 seconds and could not proceed further to detect and connect to the network.The present sucessful rate is about 50%.
Here are portion of the event log for the device (Dongle)
INFO) Sat Nov 17 02:24:23 2012:Cconnection_manager_uiDlg::OnInitDialog, OS details: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3(INFO) Sat Nov 17 02:24:23 2012:Cconnection_manager_uiDlg::getCMScreenPosition(), Last Close Time = 202687(INFO) Sat Nov 17 02:24:23 2012:Cconnection_manager_uiDlg::OnInitDialog(),Value of isGCTLoggingValFound 1 and value of GCTLogging parameter in nwsetting.txt is 0(INFO) Sat Nov 17 02:24:23
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May I know if there is any quick fix for this problem such as resetting the control panel / device manager etc to get 100% successful connectivity as in Win 7 PC?
Today, I received the Dell Inspiron 660s I ordered and I had a question about the network port on the computer. Is the network port the place for connecting a router and then the router connects to a modem, or is there another connection I should make?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have a Dell Precision T3500 tower running Windows 7 Ultimate. This was built and shipped in March 2011 equipped with a EMEA Dell Wireless 1520 PCIe card, which has a wireless antenna attached to the port. The PC is about 30ft from the wireless router, a BT Home hub.From outset I noticed that I was gettimng very slow connection speeds to the internet, but supposed this was because our broadband was using a standard BT line with copper cables, and we are some 3 miles from the BT exchange. I was getting speeds of around 300-500kb/s. BT have just finished installing BT Infinity in my area, offering 'up to 40mb/s' speeds. I upgraded on Friday of last week.
Here's the problem: we have three laptops in the house and they are now all getting between 15mb/s-20mb/s speeds, including my Dell Inspiron laptop which is using a Dell Wireless 1501 Mini Card to connect wirelessly. Sat next to this laptop is my Precision tower, with the wireless antenna. However, the PC is getting a speed of only 3mb/s.The modem and router are obviously working fine. Forget 40mb/s, I am quite happy with 15mb/s. But why is the PC wireless speed so poor?. For a brief five minutes or so on Friday the PC DID get 15mb/s but not since then. I cannot see any way to configure the wireless card to increase the speed.I tried disabling the Dell network adaptor, and installed and plugged in a Belkin USB wireless adaptor (on which my wife's PC had achieved 15mb/s) but this slowed the wireless even more - to around 100kb/s.
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1. Complete Internet Repair tool.
2. Fan bar.
3. Mini Toolbox.
4. Uploaded a folder from forum and dragged to system32 folder/
5. Searched for hidden file Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock to delete it but it wasn't there.
6. Entered a CMD prompt I was advised to do.
7. Set up a new user account and deleted the other user account and contents.
8. Downloaded and Run Winsock XP Fix
9. Downloaded Unknown Device Identifier
10. Re run Fan bar
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My Dell inspiron mini 10v laptop cannot find my network. States internet explorer cannot display the webpage. Also states network cable is unplugged. I previously did have my network up and rrunning fine plus shown on taskbar..now icon is gone. My desktop shows shows that dell laptop is part of the network but still cannot connect. how can i restablish internet connectivity on the dell without a cd installation for wireless usb adapter available?
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Which driver(s) I need to download?
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I have a Inspiron mini 1012 and can connect to my wireless network but I cannot connect to the internet.
I have restarted the modem, the router, and the computer with no effect.
I can pin my router and send and receive 4 packets ok.
the computer was using a different program to manage the wireless connection. Even though it said it was connected, my internet didn't work. Not knowing anything about this new program, I removed it and tried to connect with the Windows wireless manager. It didn't acknowledge any of the wireless connections around, just a computer-to-computer connection. I took it to a friend's apartment to use their computer and internet to search for options and it still didn't recognize any networks around, now not even the computer-to-computer connection. It now tells me "No wireless networks were found in range. Make sure the wireless switch on your computer is on...." The Mini doesn't have a "switch," but I read where F2 can turn it on...however, pressing Fn-F2 is not working for me, either.
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tell me if the Dell 1502 wireless n mini-card will function on a wireless network working on a/b/g bands?
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To reinstate here. It is a refurbished notebook. I don't know if that has anything to do with my problem. But there is no wireless on/off switch. And pressing FN and F2 at the same time is not enabling my wireless adapter. Is there any way to enable it? Or could I have a faulty wireless adapter?