I had an old gateway which had no wifi installed so I was using an adapter thru a usb port and it held a connection in the same spot and my new dell inspiron holds the connection perfectly in the same place.  But this computer dropped the network connection every 10 or 15 minutes and was thus unusable and almost impossible to set up, had to keep waiting for the connection to reestablish.  And there is NO customer support from hp as opposed to dell, for example.  I have an hp laptop, which I bought last year and it works great so I never had to resort to customer support but this computer was a disaster.