Wireless network drops intermittently, needs reset to reconnect

kunalashar · 31 Jul 2017

Caledon Ken said:

Could be but I thought you had shut IPv6 off.
Here is another way
Enable or Disable IPv6 in Windows

Sorry, I should have mentioned it - yes I had turned it off, but it didn't change the behavior, so I turned it on again.
Having said that, since this morning, after I set the registry key *and* changed the channel to 8 for the 5G connection, the laptop has not dropped the wifi - yet.

Caledon Ken · 31 Jul 2017

Perfect. When you are sure if you could mark thread solved others will find. Thanks.

kunalashar · 01 Aug 2017

Bad news - the issue remains. It just happened, and the event viewer *did not* register that previous IPv6 event.

(The event viewer did not register the event "Your computer has lost the lease to its IP address 2605:6000:ec8c:9000::2 on the Network Card with network address 0x40E230858D41." corresponding to the time that the Win10 laptop lost its connection).

The channel change didn't fix it.
Turning off IPv6 didn't fix it.
The register key didn't fix it.

I'm going to try other options too, such as sitting at a Starbucks all day, to see if the problem is with my WiFi router.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Christoph34 · 01 Aug 2017

kunalashar said:

Bad news - the issue remains. It just happened, and the event viewer *did not* register that previous IPv6 event.

(The event viewer did not register the event "Your computer has lost the lease to its IP address 2605:6000:ec8c:9000::2 on the Network Card with network address 0x40E230858D41." corresponding to the time that the Win10 laptop lost its connection).

The channel change didn't fix it.
Turning off IPv6 didn't fix it.
The register key didn't fix it.

I'm going to try other options too, such as sitting at a Starbucks all day, to see if the problem is with my WiFi router.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

did you reset your router to factory default settings?
have you tried with a usb wifi adapter?

kunalashar · 01 Aug 2017

Christoph34 said:

did you reset your router to factory default settings?

No, 'cos its a Spectrum (Time Warner) router that'd get messed up.

Christoph34 said:

have you tried with a usb wifi adapter?

No; I'll try and get me one of them.

Christoph34 · 02 Aug 2017

kunalashar said:

No, 'cos its a Spectrum (Time Warner) router that'd get messed up.
No; I'll try and get me one of them.

please try this;

set you're paging file to 3 GB or more

Caledon Ken · 02 Aug 2017

After you try page file could you also re-install the old driver and test. Thanks.

kunalashar · 02 Aug 2017

Christoph34 said:

please try this;
set you're paging file to 3 GB or more

Thanks Christoph34, but that didn't change the behavior. I'm going to try to set the driver to an old one, like @Ken suggested.

TairikuOkami · 02 Aug 2017

kunalashar said:

Turning off IPv6 didn't fix it.

Try to use this in CMD, also un-check IPv6 in adapter's options. Then restart.

Code:

netsh int ipv6 isatap set state disabled
netsh int teredo set state disabled
netsh interface ipv6 6to4 set state state=disabled undoonstop=disabled
reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters" /v "DisabledComponents" /t REG_DWORD /d "255" /f

You could temporarily try to disable the rest, set custom DNS, uninstall all network protocols but IPv4.

Code:

wmic nicconfig where DHCPEnabled=TRUE call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("208.67.222.222","208.67.220.220")
reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters" /v "EnableLMHOSTS" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f
wmic nicconfig where TcpipNetbiosOptions=0 call SetTcpipNetbios 2
wmic nicconfig where TcpipNetbiosOptions=1 call SetTcpipNetbios 2

Christoph34 · 02 Aug 2017

update windows 10 now, they resolved some issues