Belkin N300 Wireless USB Adapter Issues?

Uke Nukem

Commendable
Mar 3, 2016
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1,510
A few weeks ago I started noticing that my internet was slowing down. Packet loss was high (between 15-35%) and I had some choke too (between 0-15%) and I assumed it was my ISP's fault because they aren't very reliable at all. So I thought I would wait it out but it started getting worse and worse and the other day I was disconnected from the WiFi and could not reconnect. I ran troubleshooter, deleted any thing related to my Belkin N300 USB adapter and re-installed it, googled things and went through many tutorials but I still cannot connect to the WiFi no matter what I try. My phone, my laptop, and any of my family's electronics connect fine but my tower PC will not connect. It recognizes that the network is there and I go to type in the password and it will load for a long time and say I cant connect to the wifi at this time regardless of whether I put in the right password or not. I know many ethernet is better but it isn't an option at the moment and it was working fine for me beforehand and started malfunctioning. I had some other cheap usb adapter I got free and used from a friend which did something similar in hindsight after a while and I thought it had broken so I bought a new one and it is having issues after just a few months.
I am not very educated in the ways of networking or anything but I will answer any questions to the best of my ability. Please help, I haven't played a stable game of CSGO in like a month lol
 
Solution
You could look for the newest drivers for your device but I doubt that is the problem since most times those have issues from the start.

You are going to have to hope it is signal level or interference. Try a inexpensive usb extension cable. You can then move the adapter away from your machine maybe to a area in your room you get better signals. You could also try to change the radio channel the router is running on. You want to try 1,6,11.

After this you are pretty much left with the option the device is somehow damaged or defective.
You could look for the newest drivers for your device but I doubt that is the problem since most times those have issues from the start.

You are going to have to hope it is signal level or interference. Try a inexpensive usb extension cable. You can then move the adapter away from your machine maybe to a area in your room you get better signals. You could also try to change the radio channel the router is running on. You want to try 1,6,11.

After this you are pretty much left with the option the device is somehow damaged or defective.
 
Solution

Uke Nukem

Commendable
Mar 3, 2016
10
0
1,510
Yeah I messed with the drivers and that didn't do much. I will try the USB extension idea later to see if that will help but I don't think it will and I might mess with the router channels too. The part that gets me is that this is second time this has happened to me with a different brand of adapter.