{"id":157,"date":"2010-05-09T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/?p=157"},"modified":"2018-05-20T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:39:43","slug":"what-no-windows-7-wireless-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/what-no-windows-7-wireless-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"What? No Windows 7 Wireless Networking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wireless-1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many new Windows 7 users are running into problem when they try to connect their laptops to their wireless networks. The most common scenario goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>You boot up the laptop and configure the wireless network connection<\/li>\n<li>Initially you get a connection icon<\/li>\n<li>Almost immediately, the connection drops and use lose all connections to your ISP for all computers on your network<\/li>\n<li>Shut down the laptop, reboot the router and everything works again until you try to connect the laptop to the wireless network again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most folks will assume it is a wireless driver problem and hard wire their laptop to the router and download all the latest drivers, service packs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Updating to the latest drivers is always a good idea but that will not usually solve this particular problem.<\/p>\n<h2>The Real Culprit<\/h2>\n<p>Something in the way Microsoft implemented IPv6 in windows 7 is incompatible with most home networking wireless routers. So, unless your router is brand new you will need a firmware upgrade to make it compatible with window 7 implementation of IPv6.<\/p>\n<h2>The Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Just go to the manufacturer\u2019s site for you brand of router and see if they have a driver and\/or firmware upgrade to fix the windows 7 wireless incompatibility. If they do, download and install the upgrade and your wireless network will start working.<\/p>\n<p>If they don\u2019t have an upgrade, either buy a new router or report the problem to the manufacturer and hope for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 Needs a Firmware Upgrade for Wireless Connectivity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}