Suddenly my desktop "can't connect to this network"


  1. Phantomcave
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    Suddenly my desktop "can't connect to this network"


    I'm running WiFi on my desktop since a couple of months but tonight(since 2 days ago) I suddenly "can't connect to this network". I live in an apartment building for students and we share a Wi-Fi connection in the house. I've asked my neighbor and her connection works.
    My smartphone can connect to the network as usual, my chromecast can connect but not my PC.
    I run win 10 and use an ASUS PCE-AC68 network card.
    ATM I'm connected to my smartphone hotspot so it seems like there's nothing physically wrong with my equipment.

    Smartphone connected to the wifi network
    Suddenly my desktop "can't connect to this network"-70qzepd.png


    Full signal can't connect!?
    Desktop can't connect
    Suddenly my desktop "can't connect to this network"-ofw1dmm.jpg


    I think I've tried all the obvious stuff. Checking for new drivers for my ASUS card, firewall is completely off, telling Win 10 to forget the connection and rebooting, waiting... I just get that annoying message "can't connect to this network" "close"...

    Suddenly my desktop "can't connect to this network"-ea9r3kz.png

    Here is a wireless network report(netsh wlan show wlanreport) but I don't have any idea what any of it means

    IDK what do... I've been without a real connection for almost 3 days... I've asked on three other forums...
    HELP ME You're my last hope!
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  3. Phantomcave
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    Anybody? Any idea?
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  4. sciencegeek
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    Try uninstalling and reinstalling the WiFi driver in device manager
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  6. Phantomcave
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    sciencegeek said:
    Try uninstalling and reinstalling the WiFi driver in device manager
    I've done this: went into device manager uninstalled the network adapter and removed driver software, also uninstalled malwarebytes(it was mentioned somewhere it might cause issues), rebooted, reinstalled the ASUS PCE-AC68 utility with driver.
    No difference, I still "can't connect to this network". I can connect to smartphone hotspot and nobody else in my building is have issues.
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  7. Phantomcave
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    sciencegeek said:
    Try uninstalling and reinstalling the WiFi driver in device manager
    I've done this: went into device manager uninstalled the network adapter and removed driver software, also uninstalled malwarebytes(it was mentioned somewhere it might cause issues), rebooted, reinstalled the ASUS PCE-AC68 utility with driver.
    No difference, I still "can't connect to this network". I can connect to smartphone hotspot and nobody else in my building is have issues.

    Could it be some other driver??? Like my BIOS is 5 or 6 versions old. But then I wouldn't only have problems with one specific network right... This is so frustrating.
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  8. Phantomcave
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    ALRIGHT, I searched around a bit and found a link to the latest Broadcom drivers on the station-drivers.com site, downloaded and installed, computer automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network instantly!!! HALLELUJAH!
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  9. Ashleow2000
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    Phantomcave said:
    ALRIGHT, I searched around a bit and found a link to the latest Broadcom drivers on the station-drivers.com site, downloaded and installed, computer automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network instantly!!! HALLELUJAH!
    How do you download the latest broadcom driver? when i run the driver it wont run
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  10. pra09kash
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    same thing happening with me and i posted a topic about this like 2 months ago and still no one solved my problem lets see what u got
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  12. vikram khatri
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    Phantomcave said:
    ALRIGHT, I searched around a bit and found a link to the latest Broadcom drivers on the station-drivers.com site, downloaded and installed, computer automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network instantly!!! HALLELUJAH!

    Hi could you share which broadcom driver you downloaded and how you installd it ?
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