- Jan 19, 2012
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This is really driving me crazy and I couldn't think of a better title.
The case is at University where it's to be expected that signal can be spotty and a high number of users can cause problems but the following is my experience over the last year.
I have a white Macbook early 2009 running 10.8.2 and a Thinkpad edge e525 running win 8 and bodhi(ubuntu derivative).
When I bring my macbook to class I instantly get a connection and keep it for the whole day, in utorrent I get 4MBps down and seed at 8MBps.
Now when I bring my thinkpad and boot into windows 8 it can take a good 10 minutes of attempts to get a connection(It will "connect" but no internet connection)and sometimes I even have to delete the connection and set it up again. Once it's connected I get 10KBps down and about 100KBps up in utorrent. Exactly the same situation in linux if not worse as it disconnects quite often.
Is this a bad wifi card on my pc? Bad drivers? Bad antenna in the thinkpad?
Is there anything that can be done?
The case is at University where it's to be expected that signal can be spotty and a high number of users can cause problems but the following is my experience over the last year.
I have a white Macbook early 2009 running 10.8.2 and a Thinkpad edge e525 running win 8 and bodhi(ubuntu derivative).
When I bring my macbook to class I instantly get a connection and keep it for the whole day, in utorrent I get 4MBps down and seed at 8MBps.
Now when I bring my thinkpad and boot into windows 8 it can take a good 10 minutes of attempts to get a connection(It will "connect" but no internet connection)and sometimes I even have to delete the connection and set it up again. Once it's connected I get 10KBps down and about 100KBps up in utorrent. Exactly the same situation in linux if not worse as it disconnects quite often.
Is this a bad wifi card on my pc? Bad drivers? Bad antenna in the thinkpad?
Is there anything that can be done?
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