is it Vista? or is it my wireless card

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is it Vista? or is it my wireless card

#1 Post by paOol » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:01 pm

i used to run xp pro since i got my laptop (Service Pack 1) and i've had my T61 a little over a year. this school year, i decided to upgrade to vista ultimate 64 bit because i was tired of all the applications that required SP2 or higher to run. and i figured vista is 64bit, so i might as well.

anywho, i've recently noticed a problem with my wireless card.
When i get onto wifi, i keep getting freezing while playing world of warcraft. it will freeze for a couple of seconds, then resume. but i won't get disconnected completely. i never had this problem in XP.
My friend has the same T61 as me basically, and we were connecting to the same wireless router and he didn't have the issue.

at first i thought it might just be that router or something, but i get the same issue at home as well.
ordered (8/12), estimated ship date (8/30). cant wait!!!

T61 14.1''(4:3) SXGA+, 2.0 ghz, 2 gig,100gig 7200rpm, Quadro 140M,

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#2 Post by ZaZ » Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:23 pm

Do you have power save enabled for the card?
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#3 Post by paOol » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:05 am

forgot to mention, its the Atheros a/b/g.

and yes, i disabled power saving.
ordered (8/12), estimated ship date (8/30). cant wait!!!

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#4 Post by paOol » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:09 am

hmmm.
when i download something, i don't get disconnected from wifi, but the speeds are very inconsistent.

also, when im on AIM, i sometimes get like 5 messages at once, rather than the appropriate time the messages were sent.
ordered (8/12), estimated ship date (8/30). cant wait!!!

T61 14.1''(4:3) SXGA+, 2.0 ghz, 2 gig,100gig 7200rpm, Quadro 140M,

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#5 Post by paOol » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:18 pm

anyone else having this issue?
ordered (8/12), estimated ship date (8/30). cant wait!!!

T61 14.1''(4:3) SXGA+, 2.0 ghz, 2 gig,100gig 7200rpm, Quadro 140M,

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#6 Post by redburgundy » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:18 pm

paOol wrote:anyone else having this issue?
Me. Same problem.
It started two weeks ago when I "upgraded" to driver version 7.4.2.134.
I rolled back to driver 5.3.0.85 and the problem went away.

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#7 Post by Temetka » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:08 am

I have been experiencing this during WoW as well on my T60. I thought it was my anti-virus or something updating and killing my bandwidth for a second or so.

A few times I have been kicked from the server. It's not very time I play and it really doesn't bug me all that much, but I would still like a solution.

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