Need to Connect to another WiFi Connection before the one I want to

[lehbird]

Heres the story..

For some reason lately, my wife's laptop will not connect to the home wifi until we first connect to another wifi spot first (usually a hotspot on my phone), then disconnect from that and connect to the home network and all is ok.

Any thoughts on why this would happen?

Thanks,

Dave

 

[arossetti]

Sounds like there may a conflict with DHCP on the home router and the cache on the laptop. Try opening a command prompt (Admin) on the laptop and type:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig/ renew

Then try reconnecting to the home WiFi. That usually solves most connection problems.

 

[scout_03]

did you try to make your home network as default network to connect to it on the laptop .

 

[lehbird]

Sounds like there may a conflict with DHCP on the home router and the cache on the laptop. Try opening a command prompt (Admin) on the laptop and type:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig/ renew

Then try reconnecting to the home WiFi. That usually solves most connection problems.

Thanks. I did just that, we'll see what happens.