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Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 4:39 PM
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However. when my laptop is connected to it wireless, it says the signal is strong and internet is enabled but it keeps dropping the connection.
The only way I can use the laptop is to connect it by Ethernet cable.
Is there something wrong with the router?
adie:green removed all caps title as per link:rules
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 6:34 PM
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 6:39 PM
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If it's the TG585v8 then there can be an issue with the wireless with certain laptop adapters (I think some Intel ones are a particular problem), if this is the case then simply disabling the 'n' wi-fi mode in the router can solve this.
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 6:41 PM
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SWMBO's laptop (a Packard Bell) was always dropping the connection for no obvious reason.....................she was threatening to defenestrate it! Well I updated the drivers for the onboard wireless card and since then has been AOK even in areas of the house where the signal is at the weakest
So just maybe the same may help you???
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 9:43 PM
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Quote from: walker23 Can you tell us which Thomson router it is please?
If it's the TG585v8 then there can be an issue with the wireless with certain laptop adapters (I think some Intel ones are a particular problem), if this is the case then simply disabling the 'n' wi-fi mode in the router can solve this.
it is the TG585v8 and my laptop is a HP Pavillion g series
How do you disable the "n" wi-fi mode in the router?
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 9:47 PM
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Quote from: Routefinder Just a suggestion for improving wireless PC connections.
SWMBO's laptop (a Packard Bell) was always dropping the connection for no obvious reason.....................she was threatening to defenestrate it! Well I updated the drivers for the onboard wireless card and since then has been AOK even in areas of the house where the signal is at the weakest
So just maybe the same may help you???
I am not very computer savvy but I tried to update the drivers for the wireless card but got a message saying the drivers had the latest update
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 9:55 PM
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 10:05 PM
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I did not think I had changed anything
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 10:32 PM
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 10:50 PM
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Don't do what I did and confuse a zero for the letter O. Oops. My serial number ends in COM. The O is a zero but I didn't realise until I'd failed to log in umpteen times.
Hope you get it to work
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 10:58 PM
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Thank you very much for all your help
Re: Thomson router connection drops
03-06-2012 11:41 PM
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It always was an intermittent problem
I'm back connected by Ethernet cable
Re: Thomson router connection drops
04-06-2012 8:42 AM
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Re: Thomson router connection drops
04-06-2012 7:35 PM
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It also works fine at the inlaws house
I have come to the conclusion that it is a router problem
Re: Thomson router connection drops
04-06-2012 8:41 PM
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Routers are not that expensive so subject to the contract I wonder if you can come to an arrangement with PN but if I were in your shoes I would simply go out and buy one ~ avoids hassle & grief!
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