berman56

I was having a horrible time with the WIFI on my x51v. It would sporadically download a website but for the most part it would time out. I tried a bunch of recommendations from aximsite and others, to no avail.

Here how I eventually solved the problem.

I just got a new laptop with a powerful a/b/g intel wireless minipci card. When setting up the laptop, I realized that a neighbor was broadcasting on the same channel as my router. My neighbors signal was very very weak. My old laptop and my x51v didn't see the signal. Anyway, I changed the channel from 6 to 1 on my router and waa-lah, the WIFI on the x51v works great. To confirm this was the problem, I switched back to channel 6 and the problem returned.

I have used a number of other devices with my router on channel 6 with no trouble. It seems the x51v is somewhat sensitive to interference. Has anyone else had the same experience.

Thought you might be interested.

aximbigfan

makes sense.. i had same problem with my x30..


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Originally Posted by berman56

I was having a horrible time with the WIFI on my x51v. It would sporadically download a website but for the most part it would time out. I tried a bunch of recommendations from aximsite and others, to no avail. Here how I eventually solved the problem. I just got a new laptop with a powerful a/b/g intel wireless minipci card. When setting up the laptop, I realized that a neighbor was broadcasting on the same channel as my router. My neighbors signal was very very weak. My old laptop and my x51v didn't see the signal. Anyway, I changed the channel from 6 to 1 on my router and waa-lah, the WIFI on the x51v works great. To confirm this was the problem, I switched back to channel 6 and the problem returned. I have used a number of other devices with my router on channel 6 with no trouble. It seems the x51v is somewhat sensitive to interference. Has anyone else had the same experience. Thought you might be interested.

Yes, I had exactly the same thing.