So in the last week i have updated my laptop (Vostro 3750) from the 1TB Samsung 5400rpm spinner that i have been running for the last 4 years to a 1TB Mushkin Reactor SSD.
Nothing else hardware wise has changed in the laptop.
The operating system installed for both drives is Windows 7 64 bit.
Ever since i loaded windows on the 1TB SSD, i have found my wireless connection running at about one quarter of what it did before i changed hard drives.
For reference, on the old 1TB Spinner with the old install of windows, my network and internet transfer speeds averaged around 5.2 Megabytes per second, and now with the 1TB SSD and fresh install of windows i average around 1.2 Megabytes per second.
I figured it was simply a driver issue as i downloaded and installed the latest drivers with this fresh install (for the Centrino 1030 Wireless-N Adapter) driver version 15.11.0.9. So i back-revved the drivers to 15.0.0.75 which was the version i was running on the previous install. This resulted in no change.
At this point i thought maybe just maybe something had changed in my wireless network, or my environment causing interference. So i pulled out the SSD and re-installed the old 1TB spinner which still had my old install of windows intact on it. The old spinner started to transfer at about 5 Megabytes per second across the wireless network just as it did before i installed the new SSD.
So i am uncertain what is causing the huge drop in bandwidth from old install to new. I know it is software related clearly as i can still recreate the old transfer rates by tossing in the old hard drive/OS install. I just do not know where to go from here.
Anyone have any ideas/thoughts/guidance to offer?
Thanks in advance!
Nothing else hardware wise has changed in the laptop.
The operating system installed for both drives is Windows 7 64 bit.
Ever since i loaded windows on the 1TB SSD, i have found my wireless connection running at about one quarter of what it did before i changed hard drives.
For reference, on the old 1TB Spinner with the old install of windows, my network and internet transfer speeds averaged around 5.2 Megabytes per second, and now with the 1TB SSD and fresh install of windows i average around 1.2 Megabytes per second.
I figured it was simply a driver issue as i downloaded and installed the latest drivers with this fresh install (for the Centrino 1030 Wireless-N Adapter) driver version 15.11.0.9. So i back-revved the drivers to 15.0.0.75 which was the version i was running on the previous install. This resulted in no change.
At this point i thought maybe just maybe something had changed in my wireless network, or my environment causing interference. So i pulled out the SSD and re-installed the old 1TB spinner which still had my old install of windows intact on it. The old spinner started to transfer at about 5 Megabytes per second across the wireless network just as it did before i installed the new SSD.
So i am uncertain what is causing the huge drop in bandwidth from old install to new. I know it is software related clearly as i can still recreate the old transfer rates by tossing in the old hard drive/OS install. I just do not know where to go from here.
Anyone have any ideas/thoughts/guidance to offer?
Thanks in advance!