I was told the reason for drop in internet speed was the drivers are out of date.

The network driver could be bad or it might not be compatible at all with the network driver for your laptop.

Remove power and the battery. Replace the power lead and boot normally. Check all is OK power down, add the battery and re boot.
Don't use sleep mode it can cause untold issues.

There can be several reasons why your Internet connection is slow or keeps dropping. To resolve the issue, you can refer to the guidelines mentioned on the link below:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/why-internet-connection-slow#why-internet-connection-slow=windows-7
http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-up-a-Slow-Internet-Connection

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Possible your driver is out of date. Reinstall or update it.

Your router is broadcasting at 150mbps. That doesn't mean that your speed will be 150mbps. 150mbps is the maximum speed your router will broadcast, 13mbps is your internet connection speed.

The data on a. Network travels at 10/100mb. There's no boost to a wired network. Wireless Extender only

Hello,

A network driver will just keep your computer to communicate with the internet and it has nothing to do with the speed and strength of your internet. For that, you need to contact your internet service provider.

If you want to optimize your computer's performance to its best though, you can download and install RadarSync. It is driver updater which can make your computer up to date. However, just like what I just indicated earlier that it won't affect the speed of your internet. RadarSync can do a lot of things that are automated and can keep your computer to automatically fix driver problems.

I hope this helps.

Carlo

hi
try this :
- firs you should have the correct video card drive or cd
-go to Hardware>device Manager>display adapter
- right click the vga card>then uninstall
- this will delete vga drivers (which is for some reason not functioning well)
- reboot windows
-after reboot windows my detect the vga card and starts a wizard
to define the vga chip. make sure at this point that the path for the driver is your cd or driver folder (not driver cach) because it will restore same corrupted files.

hopefully this shoud work it out

You can open up devise mgr,(rt click on my computer,click properties,click devise mgr) now look down, you should see network
adapters, you should see on that says wireless, if you rt click on it
and pick update driver, then choose search internet, try this two times, if it finds a newer driver,you will need to restart your system
and hopefully it will run better, or you can see who makes the wireless hardware and go to there site and see if there is a newer driver then the one installed, before you do this,click on driver tab and look at the date of driver, just so you are not getting the same one.

Now if you have the newest driver and still have a slow speed, write down the make and model of the hardware, now go to speedtest.net and run a speed test. Now post back what the hardware is,, the speedtest results,and what OS you are using,xp,vista, and I or someone can explain how to tweak your speed. Hope your driver updates and it works out for you.