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Q&A: Will it cost a lot to fix the WiFi on my laptop?

Posted on September 2, 2023

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Question from Fred:  I have a 2 year old Lenovo laptop. It was working fine till yesterday evening but now the Wi-Fi won’t work.

I thought it might be a setting, but the Wi-Fi adapter isn’t even showing up in the Device Manager under Windows 11.

Since it won’t work with Windows, I tried booting into Linux Mint (I have a dual-boot setup). Mint won’t recognize the Wi-Fi adapter either so I’m thinking it must be a hardware problem.

Can this be fixed without costing me an arm and a leg? 

I’m not really concerned with having it work with Mint, but I really need to get it working with Windows.

Rick’s answer:  Fred, you’re correct that this is almost certainly a hardware problem, but “fixing it” really isn’t worth the trouble and expense in my opinion.

What I would do if I were you is simply buy a good USB wireless adapter, then plug it in and forget about it.

If you want a recommendation for a particular device, I use and recommend this one.

Although there are faster USB WiFi adapters out there, I really like this one because it works perfectly with every computer I’ve tried it with, and it’s very reasonably priced.

I hope this helps, Fred. Good luck!

Update from Fred:  Sound good to me, Rick. I just ordered one. I’ll let you know how it works out.







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