Stream 7 wifi drops

[leo_kendall]

dont know if hekps but today out of bordem i took my hp stream apart to look at the adapter.  what i noticed on the mb is that there are 3 spots for an anenna clip to be soldered to.  only one was used.  one that say wifi/bluetoth.  the other spots were main antenna and aux antenna.  it got me thinking.  i wish i had some old stickies antenna around, netbook tyoe mini pcie type sticker type antennas, but i never so i soldered three small aroun 4 inch kryon wire on each point. my wifi speed went up to.  now getting 5 to 5.7 megs a second transfer.  whith bluetooth on i gets round 4 to 4.5 meggs a second.  while using with with paired bluetooth and being used, bluetooth tower speaker, my transfers drop to around 2 meggs a second.  bluetooth synced but not sharing songs, transfers back to 4 / 4.5 meggs per second.  whenever i get a good set of antennas gonna try to solder them on.

[rickyli99]

That is a brave thing to do, and is extremely depressing if it turns out to be a physical wiring issue and not drivers. Thanks for ripping your s7 apart. You didn't make a tear down video/blog did you per chance? That would be cool.

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@leo_kendall wrote:

dont know if hekps but today out of bordem i took my hp stream apart to look at the adapter.  what i noticed on the mb is that there are 3 spots for an anenna clip to be soldered to.  only one was used.  one that say wifi/bluetoth.  the other spots were main antenna and aux antenna.  it got me thinking.  i wish i had some old stickies antenna around, netbook tyoe mini pcie type sticker type antennas, but i never so i soldered three small aroun 4 inch kryon wire on each point. my wifi speed went up to.  now getting 5 to 5.7 megs a second transfer.  whith bluetooth on i gets round 4 to 4.5 meggs a second.  while using with with paired bluetooth and being used, bluetooth tower speaker, my transfers drop to around 2 meggs a second.  bluetooth synced but not sharing songs, transfers back to 4 / 4.5 meggs per second.  whenever i get a good set of antennas gonna try to solder them on.

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[Hoth]

I returned mine for the encore 2 as well, but before I did I did a clean install of windows 8 pro (not a restore of the existing windows installation). After a clean install and ONLY installing the wifi adapter driver, the wifi and Bluetooth worked perfectly. Only after I started installing all the other drivers (Intel, touchscreen, etc) did the wifi performance go to crap. I don't know if this indicates a software or hardware issue, but it's probably a bigger fix than just waiting on a fix from Realtek for the wifi adapter driver. Anyway, my advice is to return it and get something else. I noticed the other day Amazon stopped even selling the stream 8 due to customer reported issues. I think HP has a big problem with these.

[leo_kendall]

no pics or blogs,  kinda really easy to pull apart take the back off and take out 1/2 dozen or so small screws and pop the back cover off.  Soldering was a little more tricky because verry small pins.  The pins were presolder so maybe they forgot to solder the antenna clip on it. 

[leo_kendall]

[leo_kendall]

some pics again

[leo_kendall]

[Eric_8]

Folks,

Even though I returned my HP Stream 8, I was looking around last evening and found a newer driver on the DriverMax website.  It has a date of November 19, 2014 with a version number of 3007.9.1015.2014.  I have NOT installed the driver on my Encore 2.  Here is a link to the driver:

http://www.drivermax.com/driver/search/search_version.php?devicename=Realtek+RTL8723BS+Wireless+LAN+...

Eric

[photobloke]

I've been following this thread with interest since I bought my Stream 7 on 11/26.  I bought it for really only one purpose and that was to sit in my audio centre as an Xbox music device for my music pass and my music collection.  My music collection is stored on a network drive, and the rest of the time I am streaming stuff from Xbox Music and/or Pandora.  I started out with it connected via an audio cable to my amp and with WiFi to my router.  I didn't have any issues with the audio jack buzzing as I did the BIOS update as soon as I bought it.  The 53hz screen refresh clearly fixed that.  I've also never had any WiFi issues either connected this way.

The problems all began when using Bluetooth and WiFi at the same time.  Removing the audio cable and connecting to my amp via bluetooth resulted in stuttering audio.  Trying out bluetooth headphones gives the same, and to a Nokia Bluetooth speaker also results in stuttering too.  These devices all work fine with other equipment.  The wireless connection also became seriously erratic at that point too, with frequent disconnects.  It's easy to monitor with Xbox music when your collection is on a network drive because suddenly your entire collection goes from 4500+ albums to ZERO in offline mode as soon as the network connection drops and Xbox music can't see your offline files.  A great way to prove wireless drops, if a very frustrating one as it takes hours to rebuild the catalogue.

Turning Bluetooth on the stream off, going back to the audio cable, has resulted in not a single WiFi drop for two weeks.  I've spent days trying all the settings under the sun to get the two to work together (performance/wifi, router settings, etc.).  None of those are the issue in my opinion.  It's either interference in the device itself between the two radios or a driver issue (or maybe the newly discovered physical issue)

But with all the updates done that HP have available, I cannot get bluetooth audio to play with out any stuttering while simultaneously accessing at a consistent rate over the wireless radio.  Streaming is the fastest way to evidence this but playing Bluetooth music and browsing web pages will also cause random stuttering too.  It's just not quite as constant with web pages, presumably due to far less data traffic over the radios.

Anyone else tried bluetooth audio devices and a streaming service together?  Pandora, Xbox, Netflix, they all exhibit it for me....  That's with all of the currrent updates done, of course

There's always the chance I have just a dud radio too, but I doubt it.....

Cheers,

DavidM

[kuroyume_cl]

wow... if it turns out to be the missing antenns then HP really screwed up...