Thursday, Sept. 5th, my house lost wifi entirely and the following Friday morning ethernet followed. Tuesday, Sept. 10th, ethernet returned only until Wednesday afternoon, just to give a bit of a timeline of what's been going on. Wifi is still disconnected and is unusable, and will seemingly remain so for another 2-3 days until a tech can get out here and troubleshoot. My first inclination is that a wire or utility pole or something has been damaged by the ongoing construction on my street for the past month, but I'm not confident in that since ethernet has come back briefly and stably, and the construction is mostly replacing sidewalk blocks and repaving; significant digging was present, but that ended about 3 weeks ago.
Is there any other possible reason that the internet would go down like this? Windows troubleshooter returns a "no valid ip config" error, which I've tried to rectify to no avail and resetting the router is not a solution either. At this point, I'm asking out of curiosity because I would like to at least know what's going on and maybe have some tools or info on how to prevent, or fix, this in the future should it ever happen again.
Is there any other possible reason that the internet would go down like this? Windows troubleshooter returns a "no valid ip config" error, which I've tried to rectify to no avail and resetting the router is not a solution either. At this point, I'm asking out of curiosity because I would like to at least know what's going on and maybe have some tools or info on how to prevent, or fix, this in the future should it ever happen again.