I just bought this 2 weeks ago and thought the wifi problem was due to bad internet signal.

I have an Acer Aspire V5-471G and on atheros driver version 10.0.0.209 and I'm having the same wifi problem which drops every 30mins and gradually gets worse. Like I said, this worked for me (so far), I understand everyone may not have the same outcomes, but I hope this helps! I will update again, with a week's use.įYI - not sure if this makes a difference, but when I was trying to download the driver, it was harder to do at night (telling me 45 minutes to dl!) but when I had tried to download it in the wee hours of the morning, it was much quicker (11 minutes). (Just to make sure it wasn't just one wi-fi spot) and I hope I am not jinxing myself, but I have not had a dropped signal yet. I brought it with me tomy bf's house, to the coffeeshop, and home.

After I updated my driver yesterday afternoon, I tried using it as much possible. Since my first inquiry, I saw that a few folks had tried to install a new driver (Kinda hard when your signal is constantly dropping!) located on the Acer Support page:, Any-who, I ended up downloading the latest WLAN Driver (New) 10.0.0.217.v3 When I got my laptop, I was running 10.0.0.209.