Can't connect to my WiFi

[Josephus]

Strange problem.

My WiFi works. I'm using it now from my Mac. It works with my phone.

But as of today my PC laptop (Windows 10) won't connect. It is connected but it says "no internet".
Network status says "no internet access" your device is connected but you ight not be able to access anything in the network."


I do a trouble shoot. It goes through resolving problems and then says  "Wi Fi" doesn't have a valid IP configuration

Like I said, it works on my other devices?

Note, I'm not a techie.

[Josephus]

The simplest solution  I found on the net was to go to cmd prompt and type net sh winsock reset.

Is that a legitimate possible solution (ie.not opening myself up to bad shit?)

[Liep]

turn it off and turn it on again?

[Josephus]

turn it off and turn it on again?

Tried that. Did not work.

Did do the netsh winsock reset and that worked.

[Vricklund]

Under normal circumstances you shouldn't have to reset winsock. It shouldn't get corrupted unless there's something corrupting it. 

If you're behind your own router and you can't reach the internet, you should try browsing to its admin page. Depending on if you can access the router or not you should get a good idea of what side of the router the problem is.

It's not uncommon that a computer fails to get a proper IP-address assigned. Run->cmd->ipconfig will tell you what IP-adress your computer has been assigned. Windows defaults to an 169.254.x.x ip address if it can't get one assigned.

Those are solid advice for _any_ kind of home networking issue.

[viper37]

Strange problem.

My WiFi works. I'm using it now from my Mac. It works with my phone.

But as of today my PC laptop (Windows 10) won't connect. It is connected but it says "no internet".
Network status says "no internet access" your device is connected but you ight not be able to access anything in the network."


I do a trouble shoot. It goes through resolving problems and then says  "Wi Fi" doesn't have a valid IP configuration

Like I said, it works on my other devices?

Note, I'm not a techie.

I had similar problems at some point.  Resetting the adapter would sometime work, some other times, nothing to do.  One computer would be working fine, the other did not want to connect at all.  Never the same wifi computer giving me troubles.

My experience has led me to finally identify the culprit.

Windows 10 likes to do upgrades while you sleep.  Fine, I can live with that.  It also updates hardware, sometimes.  And when it does that, it tends to reset your adapter preferences.  And being from Seattle, Microsoft's engineers have an environmental conscience that leads them to activate power saving option for your wireless adapter.  So it drops power at times, the radio is not as strong as it should be for a large house, and then you have all kinds of problems, like that.

To fix it:
- Right click your wifi connection.
- Choose "Open network and sharing center"
- On the left, click "adapter settings"
- Right click the adapter, select properties
- click configure
- From then it varies from device to device, but you should have a tab named "power management". Select it.
- There you will see a check box "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".  Uncheck it.
- There is also a check box "Allow this device to wake the computer".  Check it.
- Click ok until you're out of there.


That fixed all of my wifi problems, like frequent disconnect, not getting an IP adress and all that kind of joyful things.

[Josephus]

Well, like I said, the reset seemed to work.

Not sure what caused the corruption. I know I was having trouble a couple days ago accessing one specific site...so maybe that's what it was.

As long as no harm's done.

[HVC]

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[Josephus]

strangely, it was my work site that was giving me issues.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I think it was the recent windows 10 update that caused the issues (like viper said), though it was inconsistent and only seemed to affect some machines. In our case it affected my wife's personal laptop. Rather than thinking about it I came to this thread and sorted the problem by applying the reset.

The dumbing down of homo sapiens continues 

[HVC]

strangely, it was my work site that was giving me issues.

The zionists have started to hack

[Josephus]

strangely, it was my work site that was giving me issues.

The zionists have started to hack

Or we were hacked, most likely.