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My internet keeps dropping out!
I have so many reasons I need help with my network! For starters. Because of various reasons I just don't think it necessary to for me to get into here, my wife and I have decided to home school our daughter this fall. This means we MUST have good internet access. Then of course there's the issue that I need work as well. I don't drive, nor can I due to injury so I'm looking for a telecommuting type job as well.
Now my wife, daughter and I live with her uncle. He thinks his 13yr old b/g router is "just fine" and refuses to upgrade it. I was lucky enough to convince him to allow me to place a newer router between the cable modem and his, so long as it doesn't interfere with any of his stuff. So, after talking with friends and family I picked up a recommended TL-WDR4300.
It was relatively easy to set up even though the pre-owned one I had gotten from Amazon only came with a Spanish manual, it still had an but the online disk is in English, and so is the .pdf. Now after setting up A Roku 3, my wife Samsung tab 7, a PS3, the one thing that's giving me the biggest headache is my Toshiba laptop! Dang connection keeps cutting in and out on me all the time! Suggestions on how to tweak that? The laptop has a Realtek RTL 8188E embedded nic. . I must tell you. Windows 10 makes it HELL trying to get to setting to change encryption, and such. I only just came up on that just now while type this out!
Last edited by jayv2251; 12 Aug 2016 at 19:43.