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Dell 1450 Wireless Adapter is losing the connection after 5 minutes and then can't find the connection again without re-starting the computer. Frustrating!

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  • marcjones Feb 04, 2009

    Router is downstairs, adapter is directly upstairs.


    Am connecting to the right network, which is secure, and getting an excellent connectivity... until the connection disappears.

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    What connection strength are you getting when you do connect?

    You should not need to restart the computer to reconnect. Just go to the wireless manager in your desktray and right click. You should get a list of wireless access points.

    As for signal strength, set your router channel to "Auto" if it has it, or to a different channel. You may need to reacquire the router (above) after you make this change.

    Reply what make/model router you have, and is it setup with all antennas, etc. Also, what computer your using to access the router with.

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    How close are you to the router, and are you connecting to the router that you think you are?

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Here are a few suggestions:

1. make sure that in device manager this device is set so that it does not get turned off to save power. (Start-Control Panel-System-Hardware-Device Manager-Network Adapters-Right-Click the wireless card-properties), also do the same for the USB ports

2. Install the latest drivers from - support.dell.com (since it is a USB Device, if installing latest version of the 1450 drivers does not fix it also update the BIOS and Chipset Drivers of your system)

3. Check for interference, especially from 2.4GHZ cordless phones

Check to see if the same thing happens when you take it to someone else's house.

I hope some of these suggestions help

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1st step: Make sure you are not more than 40 mtrs away from the router.

2nd step: If you know how to get into router setup page. using the default gateway IP. than go to wireless setup page and change the Wireless channel. This should help you

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