I have the same exact problem with my Aspire One I got today in Ohio??? Can't figure it out...

Im having the same problem with my little sisters she just got it today for her b-day aswell... ? sum1 please help?

Ive got exactly same problem wiv my acer 1642. Apparently I have excellent wireless connection but whats the point if it cant connect to the net???

Im surprised that nobody has yet been able to give an answer and/or solution to this annoying problem

Ive just bought my acer aspire 1 but when i connect 2 them wireless it connects but wont load the page!!! it has full signal strenth but never loads!!!! anyone no what to do???? please let me no

Presumably you've checked that your firewall permits access. And tried putting in a favoured DNS address rather than relying on 'automatic'.

Its sounds like all of ur wireless card have failed just happened to my brother. i you wipe ur drive and reinstall the operating system and ur computer wont recognize the device its time to go get a new card

Well, I found the problem. When I got the Acer, I opened it up without connecting it to my router. Since I couldn't get anyone from Acer I decided to reload everything from scratch again as if I never had done it before. This time, it was connected to my Verizon Wireless router. Voila, it worked I had internet service. The secret to success is to have it hooked to the wireless router when you open your brand new Acer Aspire One. Good luck, I 'm enjoying this baby since December 26th.

Try reseting the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

I had similar problem on THREE Aspire One computers...I found that if it is plugged into the power cable the internet works fine. Unplug it & oops...it stops working. It says it's connected but then it doesn't load, reset everything it thinks it's connected then drops....it's insane!

One of them we took over to a tech who said it was loaded with a virus. He removed it, charged her $35...it works now. But, we haven't tested it here today. If it works here on my wireless, we'll try to find out what exactly he did, if it doesn't, I'm going to sit in the floor & cry! haha

I'd love to know if anyone else has issues unplugged that correct themselves plugged in? Or is there some simple something I've overlooking? Please help!

Using an averatec running linux I have the same problem, but it varies from site to site. At home it will stay connected for about 1/2 hr. and then stop. At a couple internet cafes it stays connected without a break. At a local library, it will stop about every two mins. So it is unlikely just my machine. Also I have dual boot and have experiemented with a windows connection and that just stays on no matter where I am. So I suspect there is something wrong with the linux driver. I found too that a direct connect via wire just stays on all the time. The wifi card is a ralink.

I have found that it can be quickly reconnected using the following. Fist go and disable the wireless, then enable it and then reconnect. I have been searching around and the problem seems frequent, but no specific solution to be found.

I had the same problem with my acer laptop last year, saying its connected to a wireless connection but not allowing me to browse, sign into MSN messenger etc. I thought it was my university's wireless connection that was the problem so I took it to one of the uni's IT guys. He played around with the laptop's settings for about half an hour and finally got it to work, I'm not sure what it was he did though. I had no problems for over a year but all of a sudden its started doing it again, I haven't changed anything major on my laptop recently so I have no idea why its playing up again all of a sudden. Its driving me mad!

I have an Aspire One ZG5 running XP, at my weekend house I have the problem that many have described, I lose the wireless connection after a few minutes. Interestingly, I don't have this issue in my primary home so apparently there are compatability issues that contribute to the issue. In my case the dropping of the internet connection definitely seemed to be related to the netbook hibernating.
The following very simple solution worked for me. I turned the network adapter power save mode to off and the problem stopped, here are the steps:
- click "Start"
- click "Control Panel"
- click "Classic View"
- doubleclick "System"
- select "Hardware" tab
- click "Device Manager" button
- click "+" to left of "network adapters"
- doubleclick "Atheros AR5007EG ...."
- click "Advanced" tab
- select "Power Save Mode"
- select "off"
- select "OK"

I have the same problem, except that it is on my asus eee pc 701. It had been working fine until one day i could only connect to the signal (usually above 80%) but was unable to browse the net. Whenever i run firefox, google never loads and returns an error.


The problem is persisting even though it worked fine before. The computer is already 1 year old, so i hope it is only software failure, not a hardware problem. Is there anybody who knows how to solve this problem? A netbook which cannot surf the net is really annoying for me.

I have an Acer Aspire One model XG5 as well. It was working fine before connecting to my wireless internet but has stopped connecting. It shows my wireless network signal as being strong but can't connect. I tried a system restore, stopped my firewall, tried the above suggestion of turning off my Power Save mode and all that, but still no luck. Guess these Acers are pieces of junk, huh? Nothing works. HELP!!! (I'm running windows xp and have no anti-virus program anymore.) I barely have used this machine as I just got it a couple months ago and use my desktop primarily, so I'm sure I don't have a virus.

I don't know if this really connects to everybody elses response or your question.

But I just got a laptop on ebay and it works and all. And when I was in my paw-paws house his wi-fi connection worked good on my computer. My computer picked up his internet that he bought. But I was also in his house.

But when I got home to my mom's house, she does not pay for internet and she's got an laptop but anyways she is picking up a wi-fi connection from our neighbors house. But when I tryed to pick up the same wi-fi connection she got, my computer did not pick it up.

What is wrong? I know this might not go with your question at all or the other people's response. But I still have no idea what is wrong.

Is my mom's computer stronger and can pick up a wi-fi connection from a longer distance than I can?

And I don't want this to continue in the future. I am planning to take it to tons of places but I don't want this to continue.