Satellite A660-17 t - wireless capability is turned off

Hi, I hope someone can help.

I bought my laptop in February last as something "Toshiba reconditioned. The problem is that often when I use the laptop I suddenly lose the internet connection and troubleshooting knowledge than the 'wireless capability is turned off"even if I don't touch or whatever it is pressed. This happens randomly and not all the time I use the machine.

There is a wireless switch between the keyboard and screen, but which has no effect. The function keys don't seem to work as far as I can tell.

If I restart the laptop wireless then works fine? It can sometimes go for days without problem, or it can play up to continually?

I'm puzzled as to why he does on its own and why it is so random. I called the service desk and the guy got me to uninstall and then reinstall something in Device Manager, but it did not help. It was for me to 'restore' the machine to factory settings, but I am not convinced that this will help me?

I'm not a geek - then someone can you please advise if there is a setting or something I should use to prevent this.

The operating system is Windows 7 and my anti virus is AVG if that helps. It is not my router as other devices work fine.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

> There is a wireless switch between the keyboard and screen, but which has no effect. The function keys don't seem to work as far as I can tell.

As much as I know there not additional switch to activate the Wlan. You can enable or disable the WiFi network using the FN + F8 key combination.
Have you tried that?

In your case I would recommend updating the driver WLan.
In many cases, updates to improve the performance of WLan and could help you solve this problem
Of my knowledge, the laptop was equipped with a Wlan Intel card.
Thus, you should use the driver Intel Wlan from here:
http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/WLAN/?page=downloads

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