Windows 8 continously loses wifi connection

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Hi,

Here is another update. I have moved to a new place (not mine, so I can't reach the router) with password protected wifi. The wifi worked fine the first 2 hours, then dropped. Said it was limited. I ran troubleshooter a million times, tried every Network and Sharing Center Administrator fix, restarted the computer several times, I ran your cmd prompts. When trying ipconfig/release I had long messages saying the media was disconnected. Tried ipconfig/all, and the IP adress started with 169., the DNS was missing and it said "Media disconnected". I never got the internet back.

Then I slept through the night, started the pc this morning, and I was back online. For no apparent reason. It dropped again after 30 minutes, then came back.

This problem persist with every wifi connection I am on. It's impossible that this is a problem with every router. What is going on?

I am having almost the exact same problem, wifi dropping out all the time. I turn it on and off using 'airplane mode' and this mostly gets me reconnected but only for a while. I think it something to do with a windows update because Dell customer service said restore to before the update and this sorted the problem until another update happened. This is madness from microsoft - if this is happening across different machines using different hardware using different routers. Micrsoft please help.

I am no way competent enough to follow what was recommended here, nor do I want to start changing everything on the computer only to fin d it has caused another problem.

Brand new laptop and this is happening, am a freelancer too and this is costing me money, my colleagues Mac never has this problem.

Please help.

I am having almost the exact same problem, wifi dropping out all the time. I turn it on and off using 'airplane mode' and this mostly gets me reconnected but only for a while. I think it something to do with a windows update because Dell customer service said restore to before the update and this sorted the problem until another update happened. This is madness from microsoft - if this is happening across different machines using different hardware using different routers. Micrsoft please help.

I am no way competent enough to follow what was recommended here, nor do I want to start changing everything on the computer only to fin d it has caused another problem.

Brand new laptop and this is happening, am a freelancer too and this is costing me money, my colleagues Mac never has this problem.

Please help.

The whole thing is ridiculous. I still haven't found a solution to the problem and have missed an endless amount of projects and money. I will try to send it in for repair to Asus (which again is costing me even more money, as I won't have a computer for weeks) but if Win 8 is the problem, there's nothing Asus can do. I knowingly did not chose a Mac because  the Asus was better, but to me it looks like Microsoft singlehandedly will kill the PC market and hand the frustrated customers over to Apple. Good job, Microsoft.

I take it this problem has never been solved? I have exactly the same issue with nearly all Wifi networks I connect to. The only one that seems to work without issue is my mobile set as a wifi hotspot. Never had this problem with any other device or operating system other than Windows 8. Am amazed Miscrosoft have managed to make the most basic of function so difficult. Resolvable only via cmd!!! i.e. Windows 8 isn't capable.

I take it this problem has never been solved? I have exactly the same issue with nearly all Wifi networks I connect to. The only one that seems to work without issue is my mobile set as a wifi hotspot. Never had this problem with any other device or operating system other than Windows 8. Am amazed Miscrosoft have managed to make the most basic of function so difficult. Resolvable only via cmd!!! i.e. Windows 8 isn't capable.

You assume right... never resolved. I have downloaded Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector, but am sending my laptop (Asus) in for repair in short time, risking a bill if they find it is a software problem. I have done everything in the book, ran all cmd-prompts, updated every bios and driver available, checked tens of wifi networks in FOUR different countries. I pretty much hate Windows 8 now. Love the computer. Hate Microsoft.