Sorry but this seems like a POS! WiFi is a joke.

OK, bought the 120gb XP version for my brother, his works every time, all the time. Bought the 160 XP version for the wife, worked great for a day but now rarely will connect to the network. Yes, it sees it, but all I ever get is Limited or no connectivity. I've updated the firmware to the .170 version.

Oh, they are using the same network.

Should I just give up and send it back to Amazon?

 

You may have a defective unit or a bad driver. The Atheros chipset is actually quite powerful on both transmit and receive unless restricted. With the right driver, mine shows 501mW with a 13db improvement on my router over other laptops.

 

Well, I don't have these problems with any other lappys in the house. This is very frustrating.

I just updated the driver to the .184 version so maybe that will help.

Frankly I don't think this is a Atheros problem at all. I suspect there is a general network problem with the machine as I can't connect to my wired LAN either. Only way I could get it to work was to reboot the router which was working just fine with everything else in the house.

Cripes.

 

what driver and os are you using?

 

Linux kernel 2.6.28 native drivers.