Wireless Access

We have a Presario 2120US laptop with a LAN-Express wireless adapter. The signal strength is always very low and frequently drops connection. The throughput is unbearably slow. Another laptop (with a HP WLAN 54g W450 adapter) in the same room always has very high signal strength and no throughput or connection problems. We have tried updating drivers and that doesn't seem to help much. What might be causing this and how can I solve it. The router is a NetGear MR814v2.

Thanks!

I'm having a similar problem, with a home network i set up for my folks. His laptop has one of these (not so cool) LAN-Express build in cards in a sharp laptop. When ever i try to transfer any sort of data about about 500k over the network or ftp, etc. the throughput blows chunks, and the card just drops the connection. Sometimes it will try to re-establish the connection just to drop it again seconds later. It's really frustrating and if anyone else has a solution other than buying a external card i would love to hear it.

i'm using a linksys WRT54G wireless router with win xp >:-( Anyway sorry this isn't a solution, but i feel your pain

Update your drivers with the Broadcom 802.11G and the necessary Soft Patches under Drivers and Support

The last poster's solution will not work. The Lan-Express card is Intersil Prism based, not Broadcom based. The Broadcom drivers are for those newer Presarios built with Broadcom based WLAN modules.

Scott,

I ahve no solution, however I experience the same on my ze5375us pavilion notebook. My other computers show high signal strength. Even when I use a PCMCA WiFI card I get excelent signal with the notebook eing at the identical place.

I assume that there is a design flaw i the hardware.

Anyone talked to customer support in regard to this?
Do they offer a replacement card?

I don't know what to tell you Scott, except you're definitely not alone in this one! I just spent over two hours on a phone call to HP Support. We installed, and uninstalled drivers, removing the wireless card and even multiple rebooting WinXP Pro on the PC. The result was always the same. The nx9010 (product # DH903A)laptop running WinXP Pro detected their "Broadcom Card" as a LAN Express IEEE 802.11 PCI Adapter. The connection was deplorable, never reaching anything above that of a low connection status. I have experienced a similar problem using my Linksys WRT54G router at home and attempting to install an external Linksys WPC54G card in an identical laptop. HP didn't have any more ideas left up their sleeve except to reimage the laptop. I personally think that their wireless adapter card is piece of junk. If anyone else out there has the same issue, I would greatly appreciate a response as we have over 20 identical units with the same problem.

Craig,

As stated earlier in the forum posts, the Lan-Express card does not have a Broadcom WLAN chipset on it, it has an Intersil Prism WLAN chipset. As such the Broadcom software will not load or work with it. You need to use the Lan-Express drivers.

Phillip,

Thanks for the advice, I removed all the broadcom software and drivers HP told me to install. Then reinstalled only the LAN Express drivers with the notebook utility and we still have the same issue.
The top tech with HP's technical support group is currently involved with this issue and trying to formulate a solution.

I've had this same problem with my hp pavilion ze5385us since I bought it two years ago, and it's very annoying. Has anyone received any help from HP yet that solves the problem? (I noticed that there haven't been any messages posted on this thread in almost a year, so I wondered if everyone gave up on the problem or if there was a solution found that never was posted.)

Thanks,
SS

I am also having a problem - I have a Presario 2195US laptop with a hp wlan 54g w450 network adapter. The laptop makes a strong connection to my home wireless network but loses the ability to use the internet after about 5 minutes. If I reboot the laptop I get another 5 minutes. Repairing the network connection has no effect. I upgraded to a fresh copy of windows xp home and the problem is stayed exactly the same. I have a second laptop on the network and my Toshiba works perfectly.

My router is a Linksys 802.11b BEFW11S4

Thank You

basically the same issue here. HP pavillion ze5000 with the LAN-Express PCI wireless adapter. Little or no strength and just getting worse. My wife's vaio on the same wireless network is fine. Tried EVERYTHING. My feeling is that if HP had a fix (other than sending us a new wireless card) they would do it. If someone has found a fix, I am all ears.

Same problem with Presario 2510AP. Also same LAN-Express (AMBIT) card. Tried different routers, LAN-Express drivers, different channels, with and without encryption etc etc. Can only get reliable connection if next to router. Tried Intersil Prism driver from Fujitsu computers as recommended in another thread but no joy. Thinking of buying a replaacenment card (not LAN-Express) - any recommendations?

I have an HP7188cl and a Linksys wrt300n router. While I can connect with a strong signal the speed is only 1 or 2 mps. Apparently a recent Microsoft upgrade stomped on the driver for both my machine and my wife's HP with a card. Surely someone has a solution.

Download the Intersil Prism 2.5 driver. Functionality of your wireless button to turn wireless on and off may no longer work, but it can just as easily be disabled via the device manager. I downloaded my driver from here: http://www.ovislinkcorp.es/drivers/Wireless/wl1100pcm.zip

If for some reason that link fails to work, just browse around for it elsewhere. Some driver sites probably have it, too.

HI Scott, I have been very frustrated with HP because their most updated driver for the LAN-Express cards in laptops (my case pavilion ze5400 series) precedes the implementation of WPA and it gives these signal problems (I used to have recurrently dropped connection when in the room next to the WAP).
BUT I have found, loaded and tested a driver for the chipset in the WiFi card and it has solved both my dropped connections (loss of signal) and lack-of-WPA. My card is produced by ambit, with FCC ID MCLT60H42400 (has intersil chipset) so check if same as mine then follow on...
Go to http://support.fujitsupc.com/CS/Portal/support.do?srch=DOWNLOADS select in the drop-down menus Notebook - P series - P2120, then scroll down and download the WLAN-Intersil driver. Once done double-click the file and let it install. Go to Hardware Manager and click on the network adapter and then click on update driver. Tell it you will select the driver from a list, then click on have disk, go to where the EXE file unpackaged (usually c:/Drivers) and point it to the INF file in the WinXP folder. From here on it is at your own risk. Windows will say that you are changing driver types and that your hardware might not work. Say yes. Reboot the computer and have a go. It worked for me.
Oh, you might have a duplicate network adapter with an ! sign in the Hardware Manager. Uninstall that one before updating the driver on he LAN-Express Card.

I also have the same problem. Every time I turn off my laptop, shut the lid or restart my compiter it no longer has a wireless connection. The Switch in the front is on and is orange which means its off. I have to shut down and restart in bios and do a diaginostic to get it to work EVERY Time. HELP I have a HP DV6000.