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This will possibly be my last post about my Acer Aspire One as I’ve now passed this onto my wife and I have a sparkly new laptop (more on that in a later post).
A known issue with the AA1 is that the Wi-Fi can be quite slow. This, as it turns out, is due to some overly aggressive power management.
- Right click on
My Computerand selectProperties - Click on the
Hardwaretab and then theDevice ManagerOption - Expand the
Network Adapterssection. You should see an entry for the Atheros adapter. Right click on this and selectProperties - Click on the
Advancedtab - In the left hand column click on
Power Save Modeand change the option on the side fromMaximumtoOff. - Finally, click OK and close Device Manager.
This is the workaround reported by many users and has certainly worked for me.
9th February 2012 — 12:20 am
This information is not very useful, I don’t see “My Computer” at all on the Acer Apire 1 2011 model. I do see “Computer” I think these instructions need to be re-written.
9th February 2012 — 8:01 am
Joe,
This was written for the earlier Windows XP version – I assume yours has Windows 7. As I don’t have that version of the netbook I can’t verify whether it has the same problem OR whether the workaround is still correct. Certainly, new hardware and a new OS, if you’re having the same problems then I suspect it’s a totally different problem and solution.
David.