Stream 7 wifi drops

[leo_kendall]

it made a difference but bluetooth still brings the speed down alot.

[OldGuyMN]

I have found that sleep mode causes wifi problems with the HP Stream 7.  I sat at my desktop with the HP Stream 7 approximately 3 ft from the Actiontec Q1000a DSL router and waited for the device to go to sleep.  About a minute after the Stream went to sleep I saw other wifi devices losing their connection and reconnecting.  A few minutes later they lost and reestablished their connections again.  The Stream stayed sleeping.  I did this a few times, sometimes letting the Stream go to sleep and sometimes using the power button to put the device to sleep.  Same result.

I woke up the Stream and it didn't reconnect to the network.  I tried a forced reconnect and that also failed.  I had to reboot the Q1000a to get the Stream to reconnect.  Not a good option.

I am very disappointed that with all the forum comments, on HP and other forums, that this problem has not been solved.

[kuroyume_cl]

good news everyone! that driver linked earlier in the thread made things a lot better for me, give it a try

[photobloke]

I've been trying that driver for the last few days and it is indeed more stable.  However it still doesn't work well when streaming audio over bluetooth and accessing large amounts of data.  While streaming music from my server and pushing it over bluetooth to my amp, speakers, or headphones, there is still constant stuttering in the stream.

That said, with this driver installed I haven't had any network drops when the machine has been sitting idle which is a vast improvement for some.  To rectify the bluetooth issues, I've tried running it in 20mhz mode only, changing antenna diversity around, and also running in b/g, and just in b mode.  That still causes issues with Bluetooth.  But the wireless connection didn't drop though.  The previous drivers wouldn't even let you switch some of those things without killing bluetooth or the wireless completely.

Anyone else having luck with concurrent wireless streaming and blutooth with it?

Cheers,

DavidM 

[Briareos]

I'm glad I saw your post. I tried the new driver as well, and this has solved all of my woes too!

Thank you!

[Eric_8]

Folks,

Which driver have you updated to?  The Dell driver or the one I posted from DriverMax?  Thanks.

Eric

[photobloke]

I used the latest one from DriverMax.  That's the one that's still giving issues with Bluetooth stability.

DavidM

[kuroyume_cl]

DriverMax

[OldGuyMN]

I decided to try a test like darrenc and plugged  a Tenda W26BR into my DSL router and then had the Stream 7 connect to the Tenda.  The Tenda was set to WPA2/AES. 

It worked perfectly for several hours.  Going to sleep and waking up many times and everything stayed connected.  After letting it sleep for over an hour it didn't reconnect.  In fact the HP Stream 7 said there were no networks available.  inSSIDer running on a near by computer verified that many networks were available, including the Tenda network.  The network adapter had become disabled.  I ran network diagnostics to let the computer reset the adapter and it then reconnected just fine.

The driver in the Stream is the original 3007.6...

[Annelizabeth]

I'm not sure if my problem is the same, and I started that thread before I read this:

The specific problem I'm having is that it's dropping packets ONLY when it's unplugged.   I tried the drivermax driver and it made no change.

Basically the way I test it is that i have a batch file that pings my router every second. When it's plugged in it's great. When it's unplugged I lose about 50% of the packets. It works for a few seconds, then it doesn't.then it works again. It doesn't appear to drop the connection, just doesn't work. I first noticed it with a UDP app I use, which was a pain to test with, but the continuous ping is easy and it exhibits the same behavior.. 

Is this the kind of problem you are seeing

also, bluetooth is off (and not even listed since the new driver) and I changed "sleep" to never.