Windows Vista and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Ever since I bought my Dell Inspiron 6400 I have had consistent problem with the laptop’s internet connection dropping off for no real reason. At first I was under the impression that this was happening because of my laptop going to sleep/hibernate. But then it started happening when it was idle for a long time (I changed the power setting to stop it from going to sleep when its plugged in).
Anyway so I decided to contact Dell, as it was no point contacting Microsoft since they would have referred me back to Dell. After a week or so of emailing, not their fault I was busy with work, the Dell rep told me that she is arranging for my wireless card to be replaced. And yesterday the news came out that Microsoft was releasing two important patches on Tuesday. One of them was to fix the TCP/IP problem when the computer returns from Sleep/Hibernate mode. This got me very interested.
I emailed them back (still waiting for a reply as I just sent the email about half an hour ago) letting them know that I am going to wait till Tuesday for the update to come so I can try out. If it works then I don’t have to let my laptop being replaced as I don’t trust these service guys. They would just go ahead and reinstall the OS and I would end up losing all my settings, documents and all my installed applications. So at the moment all my hopes are pinned on this update that Microsoft is going to release. And that is saying a lot, as not many people hope for Microsoft to come through.