Why does my HP Pavillion dv4000 disconnect from the internet every five minutes or so, then reconnect?

Question

I use it at home with its Wifi technology. The other computers in this house do just fine and don't disconnect randomly. My laptop says the signal is pretty strong, but it'll just randomly... go AWAY, then come back a few seconds later. It's really annoying. Is there any way to stabilize the connection, or is there an advanced option I need to change? In properties, there are several ways to connect, but I just used the defaul, which is Ad Hoc mode. Could this have something to do with it?

Answer 1

There isn't quite enough information to accurately answer your question, but my best guess is that you're not receiving a strong enough signal on the HP to remain connected. Your wireless transmitter is sending the same to all your devices, but each device has its own receiver and either the HP's isn't quite as good as the others at picking up, or it's degraded by its location in the house. I'd try the cheapest thing first, and that would be to get a signal boosting antenna for your wireless router. You can find them as cheap as about ten bucks. I had a similar problem and this solved it for me. Good luck, and

Peace,

Radical Geezer

Answer 2

Ad Hoc mode is for computer to computer, it dose not really work that well when more then two systems, or more then one system with only access point.

Another good possibility is that you have the wrong drivers installed, it is little known but there are only 4 different chipsets used 99% of all the wifi cards out there, if you have the drivers for another card with the same chipset installed your wifi card usually will still work but will be extreamly unreliable. The first thing I would do is update your drivers.

Answer 3

My laptop used to do the same thing. It would lose the internet connection every few minutes, even though it would find the internet. Here's how I fixed it. I un-checked the box on the part where you tell it to connect to the internet again. I'm not sure what the box was, but I believe I un-checked it. If it is un-checked, the check it. It is on the first part of the place where you tell your computer to connect. You do not change pages. Just look for the box and un-check it.

Answer 4

Wireless signals are affected by many factors, including cell phones and wireless phones, and even worse, other wireless transmitters (neighbors, etc). I just gave up with one of my customers regarding this, and used a LAN cable to get rid of this, but you may try to find a setting in your wireless router/acces point, in the wireless tab, that mentions channel, it is usually in AUTO but you may force the value from a list of 11 or so settings.

Answer 5

Have a good computer person (like my dad. He always fixes things like this) fix the router. It's not your computer. Encrypting it won't help anything. If a hacker really wanted to hack you, they can do it just as easily as if you did not encrypt it, and that is the main reason people encrypt it.

Answer 6

What you need to do is encrypt your signal, if the signal is open, others can interfere w/ you connection. And when I say encrypt, password protect your internet connection. It's not the computer, its the signal.