Hello tomshardware community,
We had recently some months ago moved in with a friend and about a month ago our laptops network connections would get random drops.
Daily we have time periods we can't connect to the router, can hardly connect to the router, or will work fine for a little bit.
I had borrowed a usb wifi adapter thinking maybe my network card was failing. (my issues started first) which had solved my problem but then the other computer started to do the same as mine did.
I had bought her a usb wifi adapter which had solved her problem for a day and then the netgear genie adapter network manager kept disconnecting and repeatedly asked her to connect via wps (which we prefer using the pass phrase). And for some reason the wps doesn't work on the router.
A day after her issues started with the usb my issues started back up, but not as bad.
We tried installing the stand alone driver but the disconnects continued. The day after, my issues started back up.
On my computer at times the network will only work if i disable one of the network connect devices. Sometimes when I disable the main network adapter the usb adapter connection disappears.
The router is a Netgear Genie WNR2000v4
speedtest.net results for Netgear A6100 usb adapter - (my computer)
Ping : 35ms
Download: 21.11mbps
Upload: 4.19mbps
speedtest.net results for Dell Wireless 1704 802.11b/g/n (2.4 ghz): (my computer)
Ping: 28ms
Download: 35.32mbps
Upload: 4.17mbps
When I use my Dell Wireless my speeds seem to fluctuate more.
I tried ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew and hasn't helped.
There are 5 devices on the network at any given time.
And both computers have freshly installed windows 7 with updated drivers. These problems were with older drivers as well as that is why we checked for updated drivers.
I am clueless on this one
Any help would be appreciated
Also, sometimes when the connection drops all our network connections in the list disappear
We had recently some months ago moved in with a friend and about a month ago our laptops network connections would get random drops.
Daily we have time periods we can't connect to the router, can hardly connect to the router, or will work fine for a little bit.
I had borrowed a usb wifi adapter thinking maybe my network card was failing. (my issues started first) which had solved my problem but then the other computer started to do the same as mine did.
I had bought her a usb wifi adapter which had solved her problem for a day and then the netgear genie adapter network manager kept disconnecting and repeatedly asked her to connect via wps (which we prefer using the pass phrase). And for some reason the wps doesn't work on the router.
A day after her issues started with the usb my issues started back up, but not as bad.
We tried installing the stand alone driver but the disconnects continued. The day after, my issues started back up.
On my computer at times the network will only work if i disable one of the network connect devices. Sometimes when I disable the main network adapter the usb adapter connection disappears.
The router is a Netgear Genie WNR2000v4
speedtest.net results for Netgear A6100 usb adapter - (my computer)
Ping : 35ms
Download: 21.11mbps
Upload: 4.19mbps
speedtest.net results for Dell Wireless 1704 802.11b/g/n (2.4 ghz): (my computer)
Ping: 28ms
Download: 35.32mbps
Upload: 4.17mbps
When I use my Dell Wireless my speeds seem to fluctuate more.
I tried ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew and hasn't helped.
There are 5 devices on the network at any given time.
And both computers have freshly installed windows 7 with updated drivers. These problems were with older drivers as well as that is why we checked for updated drivers.
I am clueless on this one
Any help would be appreciated
Also, sometimes when the connection drops all our network connections in the list disappear