New laptop has worse wireless connection?

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Compddd

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Girlfriend upgraded from an old 2004 Toshiba laptop to a Lenovo Ideapad Z570.

Now her wireless internet connection is dropping randomly and frequently, it never dropped on the old Toshiba.

Using a Linksys WRT54GS with the latest firmware.

Any ideas?
 
Have you checked to make sure you have the latest drivers for the Lenovo? Is this a brand new, off the shelf laptop, or just a newer used one?
 
Given that Z570 seems to have a 1X1 WLAN card (non Intel as far as I can tell) it might have worse performance than the older computer.
//Danne
 
Replace it but if you have a single radio card you probably only have one antenna so it wont help you greatly unless there's incompatibility between the router and current WLAN-card but range will be the same in general.
//Danne
 
Compddd said:
Ok so if it has a shitty WLAN card, what can I do?
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Can you open the wan card location on the bottom, under keyboard and reseat the card & cables ?

Worked on a few lenovo's a few weeks ago and they all had this issue, the coax ( wire ) cables were loose.

dash
 
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