So I have been using my computer for a long time with out any problems and a couple days ago my computer has been going really slow and keeps disconnecting and the signal strength says "low or no connectivity". My computer is wireless gateway and it recives its internet dsl signal from my land computer which I also got a cuple days ago but even then it worked for awhile which is also a gateway.

So I tried repairing connection and taking off the firewall and reseting the modem but its still says low signal and when I do disconnect from the network connection it says its at full bars and detects it completely but when I connect to it it goes back to one bar.

Oh and you my laptop is a xp and my other land computer is a vista

how do you connect to the internet? Direct medium or wireless?
if wireless what kind of router?
if direct what kind of NIC?

Either way what I would do is rollback the device drivers for the network interface card whether it's connected wireless or direct. Once you've rolled back the drivers see if that fixes your problem, also you can try to update the drivers as well.

Maybe the lag is due to the shared bandwidth, maybe your ISP broadened their tree. Because as we know when out media companies say we get 5 Meg internet we know that's not true it's 5 Mb all right split among X amount of people.

Let me know if the driver thing works out!

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Originally Posted by ITstudent2006

how do you connect to the internet? direct medium or wireless?
if wireless what kind of router?
if direct what kind of NIC?

Either way what I would do is rollback the device drivers for the network interface card whether it's connected wireless or direct. Once you've rolled back the drivers see if that fixes your problem, also you can try to update the drivers as well.

Maybe the lag is due to the shared bandwidth, maybe your ISP broadened their tree. Becaus as we know when out media companies say we get 5 Meg internet we know thats not true it's 5 Mb alright split among X amount of people.

Let me know if the driver thing works out!

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Well its wireless dsl and I'm not sure how to do all that =o
It's a bit strange since when I disconnect from it its at full strength and green bars but when I connects its back down to one bar. My dad gets his wireless from that computer to but he does not have that problem.

Is it maybe because She just changed the computer to vista?

I don't think it has anything to do with Vista maybe in the transition it ed up the driver changeover but that is why I suggested to rollback the driver, here's how!

Step 1: make sure there is an icon for "my computer" on the sdesktop.
Step 2: right-click and select "manage"

A screen should come up saying computer manager

Step 3: on the left side of the screen, in the list of tools, click device manager
Step 4: when you click device manager it will change the right side to a list of all devices on your computer. Click on the "network adapters" + tab
Step 5: right click on your wireless adapter and click properties.

Now if you're not givenan option to rollback your driver you can disable it and reenable it!

Step 6: when the new screen comes up, click on the driver tab, if rollback is not lit up then click disable, restart your PC, then renable the driver see if that works, if not try updating your driver, it's in the same screen as disable.

Let me know if this works!

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Originally Posted by ITstudent2006

i don't think it has anything to do with Vista maybe in the transition it ed up the driver changeover but that is why i suggested to rollback the driver, here's how!

step 1: make sure there is an icon for "my computer" on the sdesktop.
step 2: right-click and select "manage"

a screen should come up saying computer manager

step 3: on the left side of the screen, in the list of tools, click device manager
step 4: when you click device manager it will change the right side to a list of all devices on your computer. click on the "network adapters" + tab
step 5: right click on your wireless adapter and click properties.

Now if you're not givenan option to rollback your driver you can disable it and reenable it!

step 6: when the new screen comes up, click on the driver tab, if rollback is not lit up then click disable, restart your PC, then renable the driver see if that works, if not try updating your driver, it's in the same screen as disable.

let me know if this works!

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Ok I did it but no rollback option and I did update it. Still the same =[

How ever my mom did say that she thought it was the ports of her computer or something and that if she opened them or something that it would fix it... she didn't tell me too much.

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Originally Posted by Fallen88

Ok I did it but no rollback option and I did update it. Still the same =[

How ever my mom did say that she thought it was the ports of her computer or something and that if she opened them or something that it would fix it....she didn't tell me to much.

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Actually I went scrounging through the menus and I came across the roll back option somewhere in a device menu and it worked :D

Thanks a lot it's a strong connection now!

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Originally Posted by Fallen88

actually I went scrounging through the menus and I came across the roll back option somewhere in a device menu and it worked :D

thanks a lot its a strong connection now!

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Oh oh ._.


Well I found the problem. Apparently I was trying to enable my computer to share network connection so I could use my xbox live from an ether net cable and so I did it again and when I enabled to share networks it went and gave me low connectivity again and I couldn't roll back because their wasn't anything backed up. It did say that if I did do that that my computer would have a hard time receiving network signals or something static

I also tried to uninstall the driver but it did nothing. I tried to take off what I did but it didn't do anything.

So when it did finally show high connectivity, could you play your XBOX?

RICK