Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"

Don't allow computer to turn off adapter is the master setting. Is meant to block the wireless adapter from being incorrectly configured by the computer manufacture power setting. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2740020/en-us It is usually only relevant if the issues are when a computer is coming back from sleep.

Updated Driver

Before you installed the driver did you notice if the current driver was the same version or if you got a newer one?

Did this make the issue go away 100%?

Turning off windows update

First on the update section of your post. Turning off Windows update is not a good idea. Most of these updates are security related and the rest are bug fixes or enhancements. The rest are updates to things like Flash Player which has to be updated through Windows Update. 

Second, when you said, "[...] last time I did an update, the problem started again right away, and I had to do it all over again." Do you mean that the problem started again or that the problem started again and the settings reverted or the problem started again and the driver reverted?

Smart TV issue

You mentioned that updating the driver fixed some other issues such as it stopped dropping the wireless streaming to your Smart TV. Can you explain what was going on there; what type of error did you get? For example, did the TV or computer not see one or the other. Did you get a limited connection notification at the same time the TV connection stopped working? Can you get it to stream when you see the connection has a limited status?

Thanks for letting everyone the status and what you have been  ding trying to solve the issue.

I have been fighting with this issues for a couple of months now and have made some progress. Here is what I have done (I have an ASUS UX301LA, Windows 8.1):

• Got to your manufacturer site and download the latest 8.1 driver for your machine - mine was an Intel Wifi driver zip file - if you can't find one, try the intel site
• Go into your device manager, find the wifi device, right click, select properties - driver - uninstall. Do not check the box to delete the driver
• reboot
• Unzip the wifi driver package - for me this was an Intel driver, and it gave me the option to repair or uninstall - choose uninstall
• reboot
• run the wifi driver package again, It's an Intel wifi driver, this time choose install, then choose Custom
• Install the basic driver and also install the Enterprise LAN wifi driver

At this point I was finally able to hold a conection for a while, and able to wirelessly stream to my smart tv using WiDi without dropping the connection

BUT - Windows 8.1 still has another setting you have to tweak, by default it is set to disconnect the wifi if windows thinks you are not using it, which is often when you are, lol.

• Go to the wifi adapter, ie, right click on the wifi symbol at the bottom right of your task bar, choose Open Network and Sharing Center - Change Adapter Settings, right click the wifi - choose Properties - Click Configure, select the Power Management tab and uncheck the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"

From what I have read, I think I also have to go into the general power management settings and find a similar setting, but I haven't done that yet, ran out of time, this is a lot of work! But the above has made a huge difference so far.

Then I turned off Windows Updates, because the last time I did an update, the problem started again right away, and I had to do it all over again.

Not sure how to help you. Sitting closer to your router doesn't help limited connection issues as it isn't related to range or signal strength. There is a button on the original question to add that you have the same issue. Would you like to troubleshoot the issue?

I'm having the exact same problems after being nagged into installing 8.1 by WUpdate. I'm typing this sat next to my router plugged in with an ethernet cable trying to fix my wireless. Well done MS, slow clap for you

Since installing 8.1 Pro, I'm having issues with WiFi dropping internet connectivity and always showing "Limited" when clicking on the system tray icon.  When I troubleshoot the problem using the system tool it is always the gateway that is faulty.  I have uninstalled/reinstalled the device drivers several times, installed the newest drivers directly from Intel, restarted the computer, etc.  I can restore connectivity by turning WiFi off then back on, but the connection will drop at what seems to be random intervals.  My applicable system specs are as follows;

Lenovo Y510P  Laptop

Windows 8.1 Pro

Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230

Apple Time Capsule router w/newest firmware

Needless to say this is quite an irritating bug that didn't exist prior to the update to 8.1  I hope this can be resolved quickly. Thanks!

Every who is having issues seems to only have issues with a single network.

If anyone is still having issues hit Windows + W type command prompt and select it from the list. In that window type ipconfig and find your wireless adapter config info and make sure you have an IP assigned and a gateway.

If you do but have limited connection go to your router settings and find the table that has all the IP assigned to each device on the network. See if they match and let me know. Remove all the entries with your device name and/or MAC address from the table.

Then disconnect from the network with your PC and reconnect to the same network. Refresh the IP table and check what the IP assigned to your PC is. Go back to the CMD window and type ipconfig hit enter (or hit the up arrow key to get the last command and hit enter) make sure the IP assigned to you in the table is the same as the one your computer has and check if the gateway changed.

Try the internet and see if you have the same issue.

If you do type the gateway in the address bar in IE to see if you can get to your router. If you can...

Open 2 other command prompt windows and type ping -t 127.0.0.1 and hit enter then for the second type ping -t YOUR GATEWAY IPto see if they fail to respond at the same time or if just one does.

If they don't fail open two more and in one type ping -t www.microsoft.com in the other type ping -t 8.8.8.8 hit enter in each window after you typed it. Run it for a while to see if any out of the 4 fail. When you get a fail, if you do, go to the ipconfig CMD window and type ipconfig hit enter and see if you have the same IP assigned and gateway.

Let me know what happens

my problem was the same and did everything possible posted hear and in other websites but for other reasons I move to an other apartment and change my IP which was century link for IP charter and by a new router Linksys EA2700 problem solved no more limited internet. In conclusion century link was only 10MG per seconds and has its own router  charter is ap to 30 whit its own modem  more expensive yes but I don have that problem anymore my laptop Sony Vaio windows 8.1 pro is only one year old, I hope this work for you to