Forum Discussion
Wifi going down
Could someone tell me what the indicators are for a router going bad. My wifi keep shutting down suddenly and I don't think its the internet. It seems to spring back to life when I wake up my wired desktop. Appreciate your suggestions. I did go into netgear and check for updates and all was fine.
- Hey farmerhugh
That does sound odd! Before you go out and spend money, I believe we do still have some D-Link routers in stock here. I can send you a free router from our warehouse and see if that fixes your problem? Let me know!
Thanks
Amanda
- Gwalk is this it--I;m kinda lost here on win 10
- farmerhugh,
If you look to the left on the picture you posted, you'll see a setting that says "Change Adapter Settings" (pic 1). Click on that. Right click on the adapter (mine says Ethernet) (pic 2) and click Properties. Then click "Configure" (pic 3). After clicking Configure, click on "Power Management" (pic4). Then you should see the picture that Gwalk posted. Make sure the highlighted item is NOT checked. If it is, uncheck it and click Okay.
Remember that a laptop will have two adaptors, one for wired and one for wireless.
here are mine (Win7)
Wired on the left, wireless on the right.
Clicking on an adaptor opens the screen on the left:
Clicking "properties" in the left screen opens the screen on the right. In the right hand screen select the "Power Management" tab,
Remember to do this on both the wired and wireless adaptors.
- does this look ok?? I am soo confused. But really trying to check it all out. really appreciate your help. The ethernet is checked the samr.
Lets see the "blue" one that is under:
Lets do this, follow the numbers:
Clicking "properties" will open the following:
Clicking on the "configure" button above will open this:
Close all over dialog boxes.
- just got done figuring this all out==thanks for the detailed pictures- I am really dense when it comes to thses things. that box was checked on both laptops and i unchecked them . hopefully this will take care of it. Wonder why i never noticed the wifi going down before this. Thanks so much for your help. you're terrific! ( as are all of you)
- May not be the issue in your case but is one less thing out of the way.
Don't forget to post when you get the new router
