Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"

I have tried these commands - but sad to say I've fallen back into the "Limited" pit...

It this works permanently for you, that is just great! Could you please confirm after a couple of days and a few sleep / restart cycles whether it still is working OK ? :-)

Well I had a full morning with no problems at all.  Got home this afternoon and turned on from PC sleep and there was no connectivity but no dreaded yellow bars!  Just clicked the connection bars and connected to my router and all has been fine since so far.  At least I didn't have to unplug the adapter and re-plug it which is the only way previously I could connect.

I'll keep you posted as to how things go although one disconnection in 24 hours is a massive improvement,

I spoke with a friend about this and he said that - "There were issues with some of the network drivers updated in Windows 8.1 ". - and he is pretty well placed in the industry so no idea why it is taking so long for Microsoft to admit that the problem is their side and produce a permanent fix.  So many people without any issues before an upgrade kind of gives the game away!!!

After running for close to a month without this issue, it appeared overnight with seemingly no changes on my laptop. I've tried everything (dns/winsock flush, disable autotuning, static ip/dns cfg), and while I'm now able to connect again, it's still very chopping/intermittent. This is just sad for win8.1.

I have tried these commands - but sad to say I've fallen back into the "Limited" pit...

It this works permanently for you, that is just great! Could you please confirm after a couple of days and a few sleep / restart cycles whether it still is working OK ? :-)

I have decided to join this discussion as it was my first port of call when I experienced this issue which started last weekend after upgrading to Windows 8.1.  My network adapter is a Netgear N300 (WNA3100).

I tried every single option on the net practically plus advice from someone on the Microsoft forums but whilst a lot of ideas worked to start with within a couple of hours maximum the issue would return. 

The only thing that reconnected would be to unplug the adapter from itself then reconnect but this of course isn't a fix rather than an annoying reset.

Then I came across this site http://pureinfotech.com/2013/09/16/how-to-fix-wireless-limited-connectivity-windows-81/

I tried the first options but again only a temporary fix.  However I then tried the bottom option which is :

Update: If after trying all of the above solutions, you still having Limited Connectivity problems, changing the following network settings could also help.

Note: Apparently the following changes works best for Surface RT devices. However, you can try this solution on any Windows 8.1 PC, including Surface Pro.

1 Open the Command Prompt as administrator (refer to previous steps).

2 Next, type the following commands (one at a time) press Enter and OK on each one:

netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled

Then use the following command to verify all the previous settings are disabled:

netsh int tcp show global

3 Restart your device and see try to connect to your network.

It's now been around 15 hours and the connection hasn't been disconnected or become limited once and I have tried rebooting a couple of times and waking the PC from a sleep and all seems well.

Therefore I thought I would post this as it may help others with the same issue.

One thing is though I have absolutely no idea though what I have actually performed here but thought it was time to throw caution to the wind so if anyone has time to explain what the steps may have done I would appreciate it.

I had a similar problem with my Lenovo ThinkPad running Windows 8.1.   LenovoERMDiscovery process was running automatically transmitting large amounts of data to the network.  Once I stopped the service everything was fine.  Hope this helps.