Hi everyone,
I don't know if this is just a "everyone in the US is at home watching Netflix right now" issue or what but recently I've started streaming some music production tutorials for friends and I lose my connection to the internet A LOT, and it's only my PC. My phone and our internet TV's stay connected and I can't reconnect until I reboot my PC which makes me wonder if this is a DHCP issue. I'm getting a bachelor's in IT but I'm going to a crap college so I don't actually know enough to fix the issue myself yet. It also seems to happen most frequently when the PC in our home office, which is the only one connected via ethernet, turns on.
We have a modem from AT&T which has one wireless point on it and an ancient netgear wifi router connected to that with a regular WAP and a 5g which no longer seems to work (which is a common thing I've heard about this particular Netgear model). I have ordered a mesh system because my late father set this network up in like 2013 and it is nowhere near efficient as I'm sure you can tell. I'm wondering if I should just wait for that to arrive and rewire everything myself or if you guys have any ideas how I could get this working temporarily. My new router supposedly arrives tomorrow so I suppose it's not a major issue but I just like knowing what's wrong.
Sorry if this is convoluted I don't really know where to start with this. Feel free to ask any questions and I will do my best to get you more info.
I don't know if this is just a "everyone in the US is at home watching Netflix right now" issue or what but recently I've started streaming some music production tutorials for friends and I lose my connection to the internet A LOT, and it's only my PC. My phone and our internet TV's stay connected and I can't reconnect until I reboot my PC which makes me wonder if this is a DHCP issue. I'm getting a bachelor's in IT but I'm going to a crap college so I don't actually know enough to fix the issue myself yet. It also seems to happen most frequently when the PC in our home office, which is the only one connected via ethernet, turns on.
We have a modem from AT&T which has one wireless point on it and an ancient netgear wifi router connected to that with a regular WAP and a 5g which no longer seems to work (which is a common thing I've heard about this particular Netgear model). I have ordered a mesh system because my late father set this network up in like 2013 and it is nowhere near efficient as I'm sure you can tell. I'm wondering if I should just wait for that to arrive and rewire everything myself or if you guys have any ideas how I could get this working temporarily. My new router supposedly arrives tomorrow so I suppose it's not a major issue but I just like knowing what's wrong.
Sorry if this is convoluted I don't really know where to start with this. Feel free to ask any questions and I will do my best to get you more info.