My wifi drops once and a while and my computer (despite checking connect automatically) does not connect back to it when it comes back on. When i get the warning sign over the bars i click it to make the purple networks thing pop up and i disconnect it and try to reconnect, but that never works, it just keeps loading and if i click off it, it does not let me open networks again. I always have to restart my computer when when the wifi drops (which is everyday) and its getting really annoying. Any clue how to fix this and have it actually reconnect like its suppose to?
Wifi connection trouble.
- Thread starter ajshn
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windows has the ability to put your wireless network card into a low power mode. This has been turned off in the past by default but now with windows 8.x they turn it on as a the default. In many wireless cards the power savings come by reducing the power to the transmitter when it does this the signal strength will be reduced. The wireless router will see this as a lower quality connection and reduce the transmit speed (and may not increase the speed until the next time you connect, depending on the card)
So from a users perspective, the network will work fast for some period of time,
say 15 mins after you power on, then slow down until you later reboot.
Now the first thing I would check would be the power management settings for the card. if they are set for maximum power savings I would just bump it up to a higher performance level (or set it to maximum performance if I did not care about battery life)
or you can move closer to your transmitter (router) my laptop is about 7 ft from my router and works fine under low power mode but not when I move to the kitchen. I just ended up setting it to high power mode and forget about it rather than deal with low transmit speeds.
you can change the power setting directly on the adapter config pages
or start control panel, got to hardware and sounds, power options, exit plan settings, then change advanced power settings
scroll down and look for the wireless adapter setting, find power saving mode
and change the default from "maximum power saving"
to a higher power setting like "Maximum performance"
if you have already done this, and still have a issue, I would look at the sleep settings for the driver (many are driver actually don't wake up correctly and the vendors have "fixed" this by ignoring the feature that windows 8.x has now enabled by default)
So from a users perspective, the network will work fast for some period of time,
say 15 mins after you power on, then slow down until you later reboot.
Now the first thing I would check would be the power management settings for the card. if they are set for maximum power savings I would just bump it up to a higher performance level (or set it to maximum performance if I did not care about battery life)
or you can move closer to your transmitter (router) my laptop is about 7 ft from my router and works fine under low power mode but not when I move to the kitchen. I just ended up setting it to high power mode and forget about it rather than deal with low transmit speeds.
you can change the power setting directly on the adapter config pages
or start control panel, got to hardware and sounds, power options, exit plan settings, then change advanced power settings
scroll down and look for the wireless adapter setting, find power saving mode
and change the default from "maximum power saving"
to a higher power setting like "Maximum performance"
if you have already done this, and still have a issue, I would look at the sleep settings for the driver (many are driver actually don't wake up correctly and the vendors have "fixed" this by ignoring the feature that windows 8.x has now enabled by default)
On the fact that you have to restart the computer and it starts working again:
my GUESS is that you have a bug in your wireless Ethernet device driver.
I would recommend that you look for a updated driver directly from the vendor of the chip if you can get it.
the only real way to know is to look at your machine's network traffic right before the failure. That is pretty easy to capture with a network sniffer program like microsoft netmon 3.0 (free from microsoft)
You would basically, start the capture, capture everything from your network card and let it run until it disconnects and save the capture and see why it disconnected. (and who did the disconnect and why)
lots of reasons to get disconnected but failing to reconnect has limited reasons.
(bug in the driver is one, duplicate IP address on the same network is another that are pretty common, just too many factors to go into them all)
my GUESS is that you have a bug in your wireless Ethernet device driver.
I would recommend that you look for a updated driver directly from the vendor of the chip if you can get it.
the only real way to know is to look at your machine's network traffic right before the failure. That is pretty easy to capture with a network sniffer program like microsoft netmon 3.0 (free from microsoft)
You would basically, start the capture, capture everything from your network card and let it run until it disconnects and save the capture and see why it disconnected. (and who did the disconnect and why)
lots of reasons to get disconnected but failing to reconnect has limited reasons.
(bug in the driver is one, duplicate IP address on the same network is another that are pretty common, just too many factors to go into them all)
I installed that program two days ago, but my internet hasn't disconnected yet, sometimes it won't for a few days, then it will do it everyday. I update when it does.
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Okay so it went down while i was using it, but i do not know what to do with the capture.
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Okay so it went down while i was using it, but i do not know what to do with the capture.
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