Saturday, November 8, 2014

Wifi on Windows 8.1 laptop?

Hi, I am having problems with my wifi on my Lenovo Y410p laptop running Windows 8.1. It works perfectly fine on any network I've tried, except for the wireless network at my school (where I live). I have updated all of my drivers (including wireless card), scanned for malware/spyware, resetting wireless card, forgetting and reconnecting to network, deleting cache/cookies in browser, everything. For instance, I can't even stream a YouTube video at 240p without it stopping to buffer every 10 seconds or so. Now, before you say it's the wireless connections being crowded, both my iPhone 5 and my iPad 2 can stream YouTube videos at 720p without stopping once. Again, my laptop can do the same on any other network, except this one. I would use the ethernet but the wall jack is dead and I'm waiting on that to be fixed.

Does anyone have any ideas? I just don't understand why both of my other devices can connect without a single problem, yet my laptop can't, despite it working fine on other networks like Starbucks or my parents house. The wifi here should be fine, my roommate is able to stream videos and I can on anything but this laptop. Any suggestions? I've even tried putting both my iPad and iPhone on airplane mode to see if there was interference, but to no avail.

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