DyinAngel 10 Posted September 25, 2013 Hello guys, I recently bought a lenovo y510p. Upon having some problems such as loosing internet connection after a few minutes,, i looked it up. Apparently the intel wireless-n 2230 card is not so great on windows eight. Does anyone have any ideas on what i can do to fix it? Or anything they can suggest to me? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
geese 10 Posted September 26, 2013 I'm trying to change out my wireless card but I'm getting an error so far, seems I have to hack the BIOS because of a white list on the machine. Will update in a few days. Its 7620 card btw Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Archivolt 10 Posted September 26, 2013 The only way to get a better signal/speed is to upgrade your wireless card with a BIOS Hack and a new card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ddyoswaggie 10 Posted September 27, 2013 This sounds so familiar! The y510p is a great laptop, but the wireless is killing me. I got a new ac card from Intel (7620 too) and the system won't even POST with it in there! The hacked BIOS sounds like the way to go. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DyinAngel 10 Posted September 27, 2013 Understood guys. So in essence what I get is that the 2230 is crap. Let me know what you guys get from the 7620 with the hacked bios please! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arjannv 10 Posted September 28, 2013 Does anyone have experience with another wifi card? I'm also having wifi issues, but it seems that some wifi networks are worse then other.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DyinAngel 10 Posted September 28, 2013 Well, I attend NYU Poly. The wifi is actually really good. My wifi isn't as great at home. Yet for some reason it has problems connecting to my school's wifi. It constantly connects then stops working. I think the best choice that we have is just replace the card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kwaz 12 Posted October 1, 2013 My BIOS is modded, but I upgraded the wireless card in my Lenovo Y510p to an Intel 7260 AC. My range has increased quite a bit along with throughput. I'll likely be picking up an AC router in a couple of months when the next revision of the ASUS AC rolls around.I picked up my Intel 7260 AC wireless card on Amazon. It was pretty cheap, delivered quickly and packaged well.The Intel 7260 AC wireless card was pretty easy to install in the Lenovo Y510p. One screw holds in the wireless card, and since the 7260 AC is 2x2 you don't need to do any antenna modifications. I don't know if you need a modded BIOS to allow the particular 7260 AC that I got. I did anyways as it provides some additional benefits. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
geese 10 Posted October 1, 2013 Did you use the bios from here or another one? I can't dl this file yet but I do want to hack my bios bc i have the same card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kwaz 12 Posted October 1, 2013 I used the bios, vbios and steps from here (from this thread I believe)I think that you get access to downloads after 10 posts if I'm not mistaken. At first I was miffed, but came to understand. It's a great site and people should contribute, not just leach. This site's actually made me remember how helpful some forums can be :-)It looks like you have 5 posts now. Not far to go. Read through the forum and make a few helpful comments or questions. Who knows, you might even stick around!Be careful with the bios modding. Follow the steps carefully. I'd also recommend reading the entire thread (it's short right now) before doing it. I ran into a few hurdles and needed to do some side research to get though it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eaglex 10 Posted October 2, 2013 Just donated my previous lenovo laptop that I had upgraded to intel ac7260. The updated wireless definitely worked great and had much better range especially with the relatively frequent driver updates and bluetooth 4.0 worked well with the windows 8 drivers. I should have learned my lesson and avoided getting a new computer with a whitelist, but the original built in wireless sucks as usual and i'm back to updating the bios again. I highly recommend upgrading to a newer more capable wifi card after carefully flashing the bios. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arjannv 10 Posted October 2, 2013 Intel 7260 AC it is then! Can't wait to have a decent and steady wifi signal. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tokamak 10 Posted October 2, 2013 installed killer wireless n 1202 today (with hacked bios...). Works perfectly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
franknickzhang 10 Posted October 3, 2013 These are really bad news. I have connection issue as well! In w7 and w8 and Ubuntu. I am gonna flash my bios someday... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kwaz 12 Posted October 4, 2013 Intel 7260 AC it is then! Can't wait to have a decent and steady wifi signal.It's definitely an improvement. I'm probably going to pick up an AC router tomorrow morning to play around with over the weekend. I'm curious how much better (if at all) it will be. Right now I'm running an older Asus RT-N56U and love it. It was wicked fast for its time and now with AC out I'd like to give that a whirl. Especially since the router's being taxed quite a bit more these days.I'll likely pick up the RT-A66U. They just came out with a new one a couple of days ago called the RT-A68U. But I doubt they've got that on the shelf yet. I don't know if the range difference is much either. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rune-d 14 Posted October 4, 2013 This seems to be a general issue, with the 2230 centrino card, especially after i read this post on the lenovo forum New y510p with a wifi problem - Lenovo Community Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ferggucen 10 Posted October 6, 2013 will get my 7620 next week. let's see what happens. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kwaz 12 Posted October 7, 2013 Just a bit of an update...I picked up an AC Router... It's flippin' sweet Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Max 10 Posted October 8, 2013 please reference, where can I see which model of wireless card is in a laptop? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daan 30 Posted October 8, 2013 This seems to be a general issue, with the 2230 centrino card, especially after i read this post on the lenovo forum New y510p with a wifi problem - Lenovo Community Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daan 30 Posted October 9, 2013 please reference, where can I see which model of wireless card is in a laptop? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rune-d 14 Posted October 9, 2013 please reference, where can I see which model of wireless card is in a laptop? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Max 10 Posted October 9, 2013 I don`t have any sticker but I found hardware information in AIDA64 Extreme Edition: Network Adapter Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230! I guess that`s model name? Is there a problem with this wireless card?Thank you for replies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daan 30 Posted October 9, 2013 I don`t have any sticker but I found hardware information in AIDA64 Extreme Edition: Network Adapter Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230! I guess that`s model name? Is there a problem with this wireless card?Thank you for replies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
detonator_x 10 Posted October 10, 2013 I am also experiencing the same issue with wifi, sometime works great, sometimes it just looks connected but no internet available. have to disconnect and reconnect. even returned the laptop to amazon thinking it was defective but the new one was also doing it :/now I need to test that bios whitelist... I have the AC7260 as well, which I took from my thinkpad t61p (which also had the white list issue, had to unlock bios) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
