Windows 11 keeps dropping wifi

Anonymous
2021-10-27T20:06:34+00:00

Recently installed Windows 11. The wifi remains connected for sometime and then after some time drops. Nothing I do can reconnect again. Only a complete restart fixes the wifi and then after sometime the connection gets dropped again. What can I do to fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-09-29T18:05:16+00:00

    I have to agree. Why hasn't Microsoft resolved this issue? Windows 11 is garbage without a resolution.

    The amount of time and frustration this issue has cause is infuriating.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-28T08:31:35+00:00

    it's just a mess to see a huge number of users having the same issue, and Microsoft didn't even look at the cause of the issue.

    I really wish to know why some of us for example has the power management feature linked to their Wi-Fi adapter while others don't have it. Is it linked with the hardware manufacturers and the running system?! I wish to know if HP for example is providing a software for its laptop that controls the power consumption on their devices.. why I don't have the rest of options related to the USB and the network adapters

    can you see the difference?

    by a simple search, you'll find others talking about the same thing, some says it's linked to the power plan you're using on your device like here:
    Question - Why are the Advanced Power Setting options so different between my Acer and my Alienware | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)

    the irony, I can't even create an high performance plan because that thing is missing from the windows on my laptop 😂

    so, yeah! I don't have a control over my network adapter and how it responds to power saving profile.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-28T06:25:38+00:00

    Ok I have done some more work on this and it looks like there is a bug in the WPA2/PSK, If I turn off security on the wi-fi everything is just fine.

    No drop outs,

    So seems to be the combination of the network card and Windows 11 at one end in my case a Vigor 2860 router at the other.

    Win 11 is fine with other wi-fi cards from Intel, so seems specific to the AX201 - at least for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-28T00:33:58+00:00

    I'm simply not technical enough to understand what you are doing, but I feel for you. I downloaded the latest Windows 11 update that was released last week after reading there are no issues. But it really is too soon to tell. For instance my file manager doesn't look the same. I hate that. Don't mess with my files.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-27T23:44:13+00:00

    I have the same exact issue with my new laptop. I was trying to stay away from Windows 11 since its release, but unfortunately I had to buy a new laptop around 10 days ago "HP envy x360 convertible 13" and it came with a pre-installed windows 11 Home edition the 21H2 version. I found that plenty of features are messing like the the rest of power plans other than the Balanced plan... I couldn't even createa new power plan based on apre settee performance or ultra performance plan, a couple of options also at the advanced menu of the power plan like the Network option, the USB power control as it was supplying power to USB even when I shut it down but I found a solution for that one via the BIOS setup. Unfortunately, the USB still supplying power when it's in sleep mode and I don't know why! My old laptop never did that with windows 10. It also was missing the Edit Group policy and it has the same issue we're discussing it here right now, but the fix was so much easy and so frustrating at the same way which was disconnecting my wifi adapter and turning it on again ..

    Anyway, I told myself let's upgrade to the Pro version. I thought upgrading will make the windows download/completewhat I thought as missing files from the preinstalled version, but it didn't work .. just upgraded the version and that's it.

    Luckily for me, because I took the whole thing as a challenge, my brother bought a new SSD to upgrade his PC, and I told him to download Windows 11, yup the same exact system I've been avoiding and complaining about just to experiment something on his PC. I got him a cd key for a Pro version and he prepared everything on a bootable USB and voila!! All the missing files were there on his PC, yes there were new errors like no right click on the taskbar or using right click and manage computer but fixed them and worked fine So I made my mind to install a clean windows, but all my hopes were gone because many reasons, the first of them was an issue of continuing the setup because the windows couldn't connect to the Internet as the new laptop only has a wifi adapter and it had no configuration so it wasn't there. I managed to bypass the windows request to connect to Internet and continued till it worked but I had the same exact missing features and options. And after almost 36 hours of installing my software and updating the system I decided to upgrade to version 22H2 because I read it's stable, but I found many many issues within it and again found the exact issue with the network adapter happening also after the upgrade. It's dropping all the available networks and show non at all as if there is no wifi network around me.. I even can't find the power management tab for the network adapter.. it has an issue with the notification.. I don't know what is wrong with the system that makes me so busy figuring out why it's faulty instead of focusing on my life and my work I need to do on the laptop .. is there a difference when I install the copy of the windows to a PC and when I install it to a laptop?! I really don't know.. but all what I'll do to get over this problem is a shortcut to my wifi adapter that I can disable and enable easily without the need to go into multiple windows till i find it.

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