Problem With Wireless BT Home Hub

I had a similar problem with mine. Rather than restarting - I right clicked the wireless network icon on the bottom right of the screen and clicked repair. That usually did it for me.
I never resolved why the connection kept dropping though, despite changing the network card and many calls to BT's call centre in India!!!!
I recently changed my PC and have never had the problem since - although the settings are exactly the same.

Do you have the new home hub or the old one?

just the old white one... Its always been the same on this laptop....


When i click repair it says it cannot find any networks to connect to... im starting to get very frustrated!

Are you using built-in wireless or a USB dongle on the laptop?

What is the wireless channel set to on the home hub?

its built in.. and im using Automatic which i think connects to channel 7

You could be getting interference, try a different channel.

Is it a Realtek MiniPCI wireless adapter by any chance? Or is it one that masquarades as a built in device, but is infact a USB device?

its a 802.11g Mini Card Wireless Adapter



If i change the channel... will it not Fook my internet up?

Not at all.

However, I think your homehub is set up to automatically change channels by default. Changing it on the machine wont really achieve much.

I have a similar problem on my netbook. If I leave it in standby for too long, it wont go back on the wlan unless I restart it. Its annoying, but I have never found a soloution to the problem.

If you go to device manager and find your wireless card , right click and there is a tab for power managment , there is an option to allow computer to turn off this device to save power

Could be that ...worth a try

just turned it off... lets see if it work thanks alot

nilrem said:

If you go to device manager and find your wireless card , right click and there is a tab for power managment , there is an option to allow computer to turn off this device to save power

Could be that ...worth a try

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Thanks alot..!!! It worked