2012-05-10, 05:53
Hi guys,
I have a TP-LINK TL-WN722N USB wifi adapter that's worked great for me since I built my HTPC a year or so ago. I'm using it in Win7 64-bit. It was working fine last night when I sent the PC to sleep via XBMC.
Today, I woke it up like usual and straight away my wifi connection failed. I exited XBMC to check it out, and found that the wifi networks pane showed no available networks. I immediately went to the wifi adapters page in Windows, disabled and then re-enabled the adapter. Right away it connected back to my network. I thought, great, just a fluke problem! No, not so fast... after restarting XBMC, I got as far as the movies list before I got a popup telling me XBMC couldn't connect to the scraper to get movie info. Tabbed out of XBMC--yep, yellow triangle on the wifi icon... no internet access. As I sat there and watched the icon, it changed to the red x... no networks in range.
I did the disable/enable routine again and got the same result: works for a few seconds to a minute, then loses internet connection, then fails to see any networks whatsoever.
Things I have tried:
1. Uninstalled the device (and the drivers), then reinstalled with the latest drivers from the TP-LINK site. No effect/same symptoms.
2. Started in Safe Mode w/ networking. No effect/same symptoms.
3. Reset my router to factory settings. No effect/same symptoms.
4. Turned off encryption/made sure MAC filtering was off on the router. No effect/same symptoms.
5. Tried to connect via wifi tether to my LTE phone connection. No effect/same symptoms (so it's not the router/my particular network).
6. Tried the TP-LINK adapter on my laptop (with its built-in wifi disabled). Adapter performed flawlessly/didn't experience any connection drops.
Haven't tried, but am about to:
1. Booting to a Ubuntu LiveCD, seeing if the adapter works properly in Linux.
Haven't tried, am reluctant to do so:
1. Format c:, reinstall Windows.
Anyone got any bright ideas?
I have a TP-LINK TL-WN722N USB wifi adapter that's worked great for me since I built my HTPC a year or so ago. I'm using it in Win7 64-bit. It was working fine last night when I sent the PC to sleep via XBMC.
Today, I woke it up like usual and straight away my wifi connection failed. I exited XBMC to check it out, and found that the wifi networks pane showed no available networks. I immediately went to the wifi adapters page in Windows, disabled and then re-enabled the adapter. Right away it connected back to my network. I thought, great, just a fluke problem! No, not so fast... after restarting XBMC, I got as far as the movies list before I got a popup telling me XBMC couldn't connect to the scraper to get movie info. Tabbed out of XBMC--yep, yellow triangle on the wifi icon... no internet access. As I sat there and watched the icon, it changed to the red x... no networks in range.
I did the disable/enable routine again and got the same result: works for a few seconds to a minute, then loses internet connection, then fails to see any networks whatsoever.
Things I have tried:
1. Uninstalled the device (and the drivers), then reinstalled with the latest drivers from the TP-LINK site. No effect/same symptoms.
2. Started in Safe Mode w/ networking. No effect/same symptoms.
3. Reset my router to factory settings. No effect/same symptoms.
4. Turned off encryption/made sure MAC filtering was off on the router. No effect/same symptoms.
5. Tried to connect via wifi tether to my LTE phone connection. No effect/same symptoms (so it's not the router/my particular network).
6. Tried the TP-LINK adapter on my laptop (with its built-in wifi disabled). Adapter performed flawlessly/didn't experience any connection drops.
Haven't tried, but am about to:
1. Booting to a Ubuntu LiveCD, seeing if the adapter works properly in Linux.
Haven't tried, am reluctant to do so:
1. Format c:, reinstall Windows.
Anyone got any bright ideas?