New laptop, erratic wifi. Other laptops, stable wifi. Please help!

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Tiiger

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I've just purchased a new Alienware 14 laptop running Windows 7 with a Broadcom 802.11ac card, and when I connect via wifi, the connection is erratic and disconnects/reconnects about once every 10~15 minutes...

The other laptops in the house work just fine, and have a very steady connection.

They are all connecting to a D-Link DIR 655 Wireless N Router.

I have no idea what's going on...please help.
 
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Tiiger

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After hours of research I found the solution to the problem myself.

The installed drivers from Dell the Laptop comes with are terrible with some older routers. I installed a driver update from Lenovo and it fixed the issue, my wireless connection is now much faster and extremely stable. Hurray!

Hope this helps someone else in the future.
 
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