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My Dell Inspiron 15 has been pretty good as far a a cheap laptop. However, starting last week, the Wifi has been off and on . At first I thought it was U-verse as the phone was dead as well. I rebooted the modem and everything seemed fine. Now, it seems that the wifi will be fine then I loose connection. Now the wifi indicator on the desktop still states I am connected but nothing happens and then says that I have no connection. I have to disconnect from the modem and then reconnect and then it seems to work okay. I would think that it is U-verse problem ; however, wife's Mac mini doesn't seem to do this . It is strange as this was never a problem until last week when everything went off. I don't know if this is just my Dell's problem or U-verse. I really would like to get U-verse out here as I feel I am paying too much for their service to have this problem. However, perhaps something happened to my Dell that is causing this off and on again problem. Ideas???
I have had strange problems form time to time. If the problem is in the computer I would use a restore point before the problem and restore the computer. You will not lose any data. Any program updates will be lost so you will have to download them again.
I don't think the phone would go out at the same time if it was the computer. I've had the same issue with u-verse, had a tech out, tried some fixes I found online, just got a new modem and have my fingers crossed.
Thanks to all of you that responded. I repped you. I will try some of these solutions. I am really thinking that it is U-verse. After their promotion rate expired, I am unhappy with what I am paying for landline long distance and fiber optic. Perhaps I need to look at other options.
It happens to me also, and the weird part is it happens almost at the exact time of the day. 5:30 AM, and then roughly around 2:30 PM. Like you say no one else in the house is affected but me. I brought this up in another thread, which kinda pointed to a crappy wifi router. Can't afford a better one as yet, so I just deal with it.
Since getting our new modem, the internet doesn't go off and stay off until we reboot the modem. But now it's going off briefly, over and over, (off a minute/on a minute/off/on etc) about once per day, for maybe a half hour. I'd switch to xfinity but I hear their customer satisfaction is even worse so I'm not sure.
I love my Chromebook except that it requires WiFi. As soon as I get up I check that the blue light is on on my WiFi as that indicates that it is working. Because I like to use my Chromebook after my morning routine. If the blue light isn't on unplug the Wi Fi 1st then the modem. wait 2 minutes, plug in the modem,wait 7 minutes, then plug in the Wi Fi and pray.
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