Really weird wi-fi issue

bleg · 03-01-2015 11:58pm #1

Hi all,

I'm having a very very strange issue with my w-fi. When I start up my laptop (lenovo yoga 2) Chrome works away fine and loads websites no problem. After a few minutes despite the icon showing full connection, I lose connectivity. When I run the troubleshooter I get the problem "The remote device or resource won't accept the connection." No problem, so I looked up how to resolve this and it says uncheck "Automatically detect settings" in the "LAN settings menu" - no joy. I tried updating my drivers - again no joy. What's really weird is that my work laptop and phones connect fine to my wi-fi network. My yoga also works fine with my vodafone dongle and wireless at my folks' house too. It just seems to be my UPC connection in my own house that's causing the issue. I haven't made any changes to either my UPC subscription or to my laptop's internet settings.

Please help

dub45 · 05-01-2015 12:58am

Have you tried connecting the laptop to your upc router by ethernet?

bleg · 10-01-2015 12:49pm

Yoga 2 has no Ethernet port.

dub45 · 12-01-2015 1:55am

You could buy or maybe borrow a usb to ethernet adapter.

mass_debater · 12-01-2015 8:22am

Did you update the wireless driver? You'll find the latest on the manufacturers website

ThunbergsAreGo · 12-01-2015 8:32am

I have the same with an asus t100, yet to find a resolution.

Assume you are with Horizon?

bleg · 12-01-2015 12:54pm

mass_debater wrote: »

Did you update the wireless driver? You'll find the latest on the manufacturers website

Yep. Tried updating it using the windows updater and the intel updater. Both say they successfully installed the new driver however when I check the driver is from 09/2013 and I know from the intel site the most recent is from 10/2014.

Really annoying.

Yep I'm on Horizon. Interesting that you're having the same issue.

bleg · 12-01-2015 1:54pm

Worked fine there for about 30 minutes and now just gone again. ARGH!!!

ThunbergsAreGo · 14-01-2015 12:46pm

Yes, its really really irritating.

Does it work best when there is noone else connected/after a reboot?

bleg · 19-01-2015 9:30pm

No reason like that to it whatsoever. Upc haven't been able to sort it.

Had the same issue with my sister's box at the weekend.

miezekatze · 19-01-2015 9:35pm

We have the same issue with upc horizon, wish we'd never got it.

ThunbergsAreGo · 22-01-2015 10:22am

Did you raise it with Horizon?

I had one day of it working perfectly and then back to the above! ts very frustrating!

Tempted to jump to Windows 10 in the off chance that works!

Diggerdunne · 23-01-2015 11:37pm

have u tried giving the laptop a static ip?

Really weird wi-fi issue

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