Broadcom BCM43142 802.11 bgn Wi-Fi / Bluetooth combo chip Adapter low wi-fi signal strength

[uddhap]

Hi recently i purchased this (HP Notebook 15-ay083nia ) laptop.  But in HP support  page didn't get this driver enlisted.

This one has  Wi-fi (Broadcom BCM43142 802.11 b/g/n  M.2) & bluetooth combo chip .  For Bluettoth i installed sp66402  & for Wi- Fi  sp70616 . But wi-fi signal strenth is very poor and not stable at all  although router is near by. Other laptops are working fine just mine one giving less signal strength. please help.

[erico]

The driver is located in two places.

1) on the recovery flash drive that you should have created by now.

2) in the HP Recovery Manager that you can access while you are logged into Windows.

[uddhap]

Dear Thanks for your reply. I purchased a dos machine then installed windows. i didn't get your point what you mentioned.

i already installed the mentioned driver  which is giving unstable Wi-Fi signal.  is there any single  driver for both hardware.

what you want me to do?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

This is the latest W7 driver for the model wireless network adapter your notebook has...

The package contains the Broadcom wireless LAN drivers and utility that are required to enable the integrated Broadcom Wireless LAN Adapter in supported notebooks that are running a supported operating system.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp72501-73000/sp72879.exe

[erico]

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@uddhap wrote:

Dear Thanks for your reply. I purchased a dos machine then installed windows. i didn't get your point what you mentioned.

i already installed the mentioned driver  which is giving unstable Wi-Fi signal.  is there any single  driver for both hardware.

what you want me to do?

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Thanks. I did not know yours was a Dos machine. In your case, there is indeed no Recovery Flashdrive creation needed or possible. It does help when you supply that information.

Use the device manager to determine which devices do not have drivers installed.  Then use the  support page that I provided to get the drivers that you need.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @erico :

There is no W7 Broadcom wireless driver on the support page for that model, which is why I posted it and why the OP was trying different versions from elsewhere, which are too old for the hardware version of the wlan card in his notebook.

[uddhap]

Thank you dear. This one is working perfectly.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

You will also need the Broadcom bluetooth driver, which also is not on your notebook's support page...

This package contains the Broadcom Bluetooth driver and software for supported models that are running a supported operating system. Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 Driver is required to enable Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 devices and is compatible with Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 and earlier versions.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp72501-73000/sp72617.exe