Z60t -- Wireless Issue -- Intermittent Disconnections

[rknotes]

My Z60t keeps getting disconnected and re-connected often while there are no issues with the Wireless Router (D-Link) (My connection on another computer using the same wireless connection has no such issues)

Have anyone noticed this issue? or this common issue for this series?

Thanks!

[RealBlackStuff]

In Device Manager for your wireless/network card there is a setting that allows Windows to switch it off when not in use, to save energy.
Untick that option to see if that helps.

[chsu74]

I am also have this issue but it seems to happen during start ups. Can someone confirm that the fix above eliminates the issue?

[Marin85]

I am also have this issue but it seems to happen during start ups. Can someone confirm that the fix above eliminates the issue?

Well it won´t hurt to try it out. There are also some other power-management-related "fixes", but the one suggested by RBS seems to be the most common one. The others to consider would be to edit your power manager profile and set wifi to max performance and/or, somewhat related to this, to change the power saving options for the wifi within windows power options. Please also note that Lenovo Power Manager and Windows power options tend to overwrite each other (depending on the version). Also, if you use some default profile in Power Manager, the changes you may have made to it will revert on the next reboot. For these both reasons I would suggest to create your own profile with wifi set to max performance (worth the hassle only if the first fix doesn´t work and if you have verified that changing the other power settings solves the issue).

Cheers

Marin

[chsu74]

As a follow up. The laptop will have issues with not seeing the wireless card sometimes during boot up. It would require me to manually switch the radio switch off and back on to reboot my bluetooth, wireless and the wireless WAN cards. Is this a hardware or software issue?

[Mike Blake]

Just a thought, not an answer. If you have an external wireless adapter handy, does the connection ever drop out using that?

I've had that issue with my T42 but not my z61t. Once removing the internal adapter from Device Manager and letting Windows redetect it fixed the issue for a very long time.