I am having a problem where I sometimes cannot access the internet with my PC (I have a USB wifi adapter), and it will come up with a "could not reach server" error message, or DNS error. However then it periodically works, literally after a few minutes, and then does not work again a minute later. I have had download/upload speeds as low as 40kbps/120kbps when testing on speedof.me.
Note: On my phone and on my housemate's laptop, the internet is working fine in our apartment, apart from occassional drops in download/upload speed (but never as low as on my PC). My room is not far from the router in the living room, so signal should be fine. I am very confused what is causing this problem.
I have already tried:
- Disabling the Windows 10 setting where Windows updates my hardware drivers automatically, so that I could instead install the proper drivers for those devices.
- Disabling and re-enabling the USB wifi adapter. This fixes it but only for a short time. (Note: I had similar problems with my previous adapter, so I have a brand new one from TPlink, so I doubt it is a hardware failure)
- CMD>ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /registerdns, ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew. After all of these commands it stopped working, and then started again a few mins later..
UPDATE: Now one of my housemates also had the same problem with her laptop - now I'm really lost as to what it could be.
My setup/specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
CPU: AMD Phenom II Black Edition X4 980 Processor, 3.70 GHz (With Noctua NH D-14 fans and heatsinks)
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
Memory: 8 GB of RAM (4x2 GB Modules - Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TW3X4G1333C9A 1333 MHz)
OS: Windows 10 Professional on a Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB SSD (Also contains all program files)
Mass Storage: 1 TB Harddrive (Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 SCSI Disk Device), from my previous setup
Power supply: Corsair Enthusiast TX750 V2 Power Supply (750W)
Disc reader: LG GH24NS90.AUAA50B 24x SATA Bare Internal DVD Rewriter
Thanks in advance for the help!
- Lee
Note: On my phone and on my housemate's laptop, the internet is working fine in our apartment, apart from occassional drops in download/upload speed (but never as low as on my PC). My room is not far from the router in the living room, so signal should be fine. I am very confused what is causing this problem.
I have already tried:
- Disabling the Windows 10 setting where Windows updates my hardware drivers automatically, so that I could instead install the proper drivers for those devices.
- Disabling and re-enabling the USB wifi adapter. This fixes it but only for a short time. (Note: I had similar problems with my previous adapter, so I have a brand new one from TPlink, so I doubt it is a hardware failure)
- CMD>ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /registerdns, ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew. After all of these commands it stopped working, and then started again a few mins later..
UPDATE: Now one of my housemates also had the same problem with her laptop - now I'm really lost as to what it could be.
My setup/specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
CPU: AMD Phenom II Black Edition X4 980 Processor, 3.70 GHz (With Noctua NH D-14 fans and heatsinks)
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
Memory: 8 GB of RAM (4x2 GB Modules - Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TW3X4G1333C9A 1333 MHz)
OS: Windows 10 Professional on a Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB SSD (Also contains all program files)
Mass Storage: 1 TB Harddrive (Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 SCSI Disk Device), from my previous setup
Power supply: Corsair Enthusiast TX750 V2 Power Supply (750W)
Disc reader: LG GH24NS90.AUAA50B 24x SATA Bare Internal DVD Rewriter
Thanks in advance for the help!
- Lee