Windows 8.1: WiFi dropping and/or "Limited"

Similar problem.

My network "disconnects" during random intervals but says I am still connected to the internet. Anywhere between 3 minutes and 3 hours, but usually it's every 10 minutes. This is a brand new Win8 laptop (<8 months) and this problem has been occurring for the past 3 months, I have wasted too many hours attempting to fix this. As a heavy programs user I have been very disappointed with Win8 itself, it's fine on tablets but not on real computers when I need to do real work.

Summary:

Problem: Dropping internet connection while "still connected". eg. Websites will not load even with full bars.

Frequency: 3 minutes to 3 hours. Average of 10 minutes.

Quick fix: Disconnecting from the network, reconnecting to the network.

Permanent fix: Buying a mac after owning 8 windows laptops in 8 years.

Toshiba P850

Windows 8.1

Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless

To all of you, involved in never ending discussion. Unfortunately you don't understand that there is this discussion started with 8.1 upgrade, all about the wi-fi stability or issues with wi-fi connection. All problems make troubles to customers of Microsoft W8.1. Sorry, is there any person in Microsoft services willing or able to provide analyze of the problem and say this and that is wrong in routers logic, this and that is wrong in PC adapters, this and that is due to W8.1 excellent new features which we changed from W7 to W8 or W8.1. This is the only reasonable and professional way to react on disaster in SW vs HW battle in finding the responsibility and not the solution of this fault. Workarounds, additional applications or try and pray recommendations, sorry it is not the Microsoft forum value for its customers. Vaclav

How does this work if you can't get a connection in the first place? It is a workaround since it is working around an issue and a bad one because if it traps the network device in a constant download or upload. Then when a valid get ready to sleep event is broadcast by OS the network and all drives will return they aren't able to sleep and the PC will refuse to sleep or will enter a limited sleep keeping almost everything awake and utilizing way more power which is expensive for a company that has 1,000s of devices. And will drain the battery of a not plugged in device

Sorry to say but all 400 posts are not issues and not related to erroneous device sleep handling. On top of that I wouldn't suggest using extra software that isn't needed. Most of these issue are related to bad routers that aren't conforming to standards or have a misconfiguration. These issues didn't present prior to an update because the driver wasn't using the newer features on the router or several other reasons.

if you have a degree in computer science and it relates to this subject you would know that the OS doesn't handle the network adapter the manufactures driver should. If no driver is available then the basic one will be used but it isn't meant to be the driver used for normal activities.

Microsoft provides an API to interact with the kernel and the network communication is the responsibility of the driver. Therefore it is unnecessary to insult the Microsoft staff or anyone else here trying to offer free help to people.

BTW I don't have a degree in CS and we are all allowed to have our own opinions. If you disagree with any thing I have wrote feel free to provide fact the support why you would need to use brute force to keep an adapter alive and connected to the network.

And BTW, your workaround did not work for 400+ people in the thread. Read their replies. Try what I said for 30 minutes and you will know what I am talking about!