I’ve got a Acer Aspire 3610 laptop which I currently use to do all my work on. It comes with a built in wireless card which has caused me no end of grief. So much so that when I use it in my house, I use an ethernet cable that goes from my router, down the stairs and across my front room as I need the reliability.
I had the problem where I would be connected fine, then out of the blue the wireless network would disconnect and then it wouldn’t be able to connect again even though the signal is classed as excellent. A major pain in the rectum, especially when you are mid way through uploading a client’s web site. I upgraded drivers, reinstalled it, played with the settings, but nothing seemed to work.
So before I got to the stage of throwing the laptop out the window, I bought a 802.11g Wireless cardbus adaptor from eBuyer. It’s the D-Link 108G AirPlusXtremeG, sounds scary doesn’t it. It cost me a massive £26.88 but hopefully it’ll cure the issues.
So far so good but I’ve only had it installed for about 30 minutes!
I don’t know whether I just got a duff card in my laptop, or whether the drivers are rubbish, or something else, but it really put me off wireless for a while.