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February 2nd, 2007, 04:26 AM
#1
a new wifi adapter
Hi, my 'acer travelmate 4152 notebook' has a "hardware-controlling off/on button" to act or deactivate my build in wifi-network adapter.
Unfortunally, i'm not very pleased with its capacity (slow, drops). So i installed a USB-type-networkadapter (which i actually use in one of my other pc's).
This works much better. But now i want to switch it's connexion off or on with the notebooks "hardware-controlling off/on button".
But this seems not to work, is there a way to fix this?
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February 2nd, 2007, 09:12 AM
#2
Registered User
I dont believe that is possible. The button is too control only the onboard one.
You might try updating the drivers for the onboard wifi card. I have sold a number of acer's with wifi and none have exibited the problem you state. Slow and drops connection.
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February 3rd, 2007, 06:03 AM
#3
Driver Terrier
Another acer fan here... you should update the drivers for the onboard wifi - that may improve things.
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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February 6th, 2007, 04:43 AM
#4
Originally Posted by Ferrit
I dont believe that is possible. The button is too control only the onboard one.
You might try updating the drivers for the onboard wifi card. I have sold a number of acer's with wifi and none have exibited the problem you state. Slow and drops connection.
My router is a Belkin PRe-N, so no problems with that. So now i installed a Belkin 54mbps adapter, which keeps that steady speed.
The builtin adapter works also good for general internet-use(54 mbps). But from time to time the connection drops to, let's say approx 24mbps, works also fine.
Just...for watching online video, these drops produce annoying stutter movies. That's why i changed it.
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February 6th, 2007, 06:04 PM
#5
Registered User
Sorry, but the physical button on the laptop won't turn control anything but the on-board adapter. However, either Windows native WLAN management or your NICS control software will let you turn off the wireless connection with 3 or 4 mouse clicks.
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