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HP Pavilion, Windows 10. We just upgraded to Hughesnet Elite. Since that, my computer cannot hook up to WiFi hughesnet. I can hook up no problem to my hotspot from Cricket Wireless. I did comp...
Thank you for posting and welcome to the community. First I am sorry to hear this is happening. To get some clarification, did you upgrade from Gen 5 to The new Hughesnet Elite plan? Or were you already on the new Hughesnet system? I ask because the new Hughesnet service has upgraded Wi-Fi and if a driver is out of date, it will not work. Updating drivers in general should usually do the trick. -Damian
Thanks.
I updated everything. At first, when we hooked up, everything was great. After the installer left, computer kept crashing. My computer is from 2010 but always worked great. We had the old internet from 2014 Hughesnet. That worked fine. If there is a driver that you know of, let me know. HP Pavilion.
I think what Damian is trying to say is that the modems are now running 802.11ax by default. In theory, devices designed to see older protocols (e.g., 802.11g) should recognize it, however some aren't even recognizing there's even an available wifi channel.
Try logging into your wifi settings: (http://192.168.42.1/wireless_main.htm?t=1707568432118) and changing the protocol for the wifi band that you're trying to use from 11ax to either 11g, 11n, or 11ac (whatever you were using before) and see if it now works.I cannot do anything with that link. It asks for an administrative password. My hughesnet password doesn't work.
pmbr wrote:After the installer left, computer kept crashing.
When you say your "computer kept crashing", do you mean its internet connection was dropping or the computer itself was actually crashing? If the former, I'd try what Mark suggested. If the latter, it's very likely that it's just coincidence, as I can't see how new internet could cause a computer to crash, with the exception of a new driver being installed that it isn't/wasn't getting along with.
after this appears, the computer has to restart every time.
" At first, when we hooked up, everything was great."
Do you mean that when you first connected, your machine worked fine with the Hughesnet wifi?
I completely restored my system to day 1 of purchase and updated. I tried updating drivers and it said I had the most current one.
Updating the drivers may not do anything if the wifi in the machine is too old to recognize a newer protocol.
Their machine is 14 years old. They say they restored it to "day 1 of purchase," which I guess means factory settings, but those were 14 year old settings. And even though they get the message that the drivers are the most current, that may mean they're the most current as of a prior date.
pmbr wrote:I completely restored my system to day 1 of purchase and updated. I tried updating drivers and it said I had the most current one.
Did you subsequently upgrade it to Windows 10? A fourteen year old PC would have come with Windows 7.
You may have two things going on here.
1. The machine is too old to support the WiFi protocol. You could probably rectify this with a simple USB WiFi adapter. However...
2. The machine is having shutdown issues because it's old. Either a replaceable component is "going", such as the storage, RAM or GPU, or the motherboard itself is "going".
Additionally, with its age you're soon going to run into a significant problem, as in Windows 10 reaching the end of its support, and your machine most assuredly does not support Windows 11. You could keep it going after that with a Linux distro, but you're likely still going to have problems with the WiFi because of its age, and if the machine is in fact "going", a Linux distro won't make any difference.
