Just started this morning. I have a 5-year old HP laptop with Win 7 that has been working flawlessly. Other wireless devices are working fine but mine keeps losing the network. When I go to the Network Diagnostics it goes through everything then says it reset my connection. Then it works for a few minutes and does it again. Meanwhile other devices keep working. Any suggestions as to what's going on? Thanks.
I'm not a computer or wifi guru, but I had a similar problem when I got a new phone a month or so ago.
Check your wireless device to see if it limits the number of connections or the amount of "data" being used at one time. If you're overloading the wireless, it may be kicking one off.
You may have already done this... and it may not make any difference... but try resetting your wireless device too.
I'm sure someone a lot smarter than I will chime in to help out.
Also consider a possible IP conflict, which is cured by turning off every WiFi device at your compound and then rebooting the router. This has vexed me a few times.
I also had to axe, I mean ask, my broadband provider to remotely reconfigure my router to accept more WiFi devices. With laptops, printers and gaming devices, we probably have a dozen of them.
Do you have any spare USB wifi adapters to plug into your machine? It could be the wifi adapter built in the laptop could be failing since other devices are working fine. Since other devices are working fine your wifi access point is less likely the problem and it could be either the adapter on the laptop or the drivers for it. If it works fine with some USB wifi adapter then we will know
these are just process of elimination that may or may not solve your problem because I cannot physically trouble shoot it. First, check that the network card (wired and wireless) has the latest drivers and firmware. you can download them from the manufacturer website (not HP, the card manufacturer). once that is done, flush your DNS cache at the command prompt, release your current IP and restart the machine so the router can assign another IP. After that, make sure there is no conflict between the drivers of your card and an antivirus software. Disable your antivirus, run a check disk utility and restart. If none of that helps, then connect to the console of your router and begin with the logs and see when and what conflicts were encountered when your laptop was dropped from the network. If all other devices stay connected all of the time, then turn off or disconnect some of them to free up some bandwidth and check if it happens again. Like I said, these are just troubleshooting steps.
Our printer automatically stays connected to all phones and computers in the house....EXCEPT my Mac Book Pro...I have to enter the WiFi password...EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Sounds like Homegroup. There's a listener and a server. to get to them, do a windows+r to bring up the run dialog. in the box, type in services.msc
the services will run. in the list, find Homegroup Listener and HomeGroup Provider. Double click them each in turn and DISABLE them. Also stop them if they're running.
Reboot the system.
HomeGroup attempts to group similar computers into a sort of network and it's one of Microsoft's great failures... just add it to the dozens already.
See if that works for you. When homegroup is active, it has a tendency to disconnect you from a network that is not in "your homegroup".
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