I have been dealing with the vexing issue of limited or no internet on a Windows 10 PC for months. My Windows 10 laptop does not suffer from this issue, but my custom desktop PC had the vexing condition of the internet dropping offline 5 to 30 minutes after a startup from power on or reset. I researched all of the noted issues on the forums and tried all of the “fixes”. Nothing worked. I dug a little deeper and it looks like I have fixed the issue – my internet has been up for 12 hours as a result.
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Not sure exactly what did it but here is the barebones of what I did:. Control Panel Hardware and Sound Device Manager Network Adapters Wireless USB Adapter Power Management Tab uncheck “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. Control Panel Hardware and Sound Device Manager Universal Serial Bus controllers USB Root Hub Power Management Tab uncheck “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. Note - I had multiple USB Root Hubs (one of which my USB 3.0 Wireless USB Adapter is plugged into) so I did this for all of them. Ensure you have the latest Wireless Adapter driver – mine was OK.
Note – I also updated the wired adapter driver which was out of date – it did not completely resolve my problem but for some strange reason this resulted in a more stable wireless connection. New Note - I found an issue with my motherboard USB 3.0 controllers - both would shut down (this correctly led me away from the wireless device being an issue). Windows 10 installed a Microsoft driver for the motherboard Etron® EJ168 USB 3.0 controller and hub Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller (2x); Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Root Hub (2x). Apparently the Microsoft driver is not compatible with these Etron devices. I found and installed the latest Etron driver and have had absolutely no problems for 24 hrs.It looks like that Microsoft driver was the problem all along.I wonder how many others are fighting an apparent network USB device / adapter / driver problem when the real problem is the USB controller driver.
Control Panel Network and Sharing Center View network status and tasks click on the internet connection (brings up the Wi-Fi Status window) click on the “Wireless Properties” button and enable the “Connect automatically when the network is in range”. Note – I also enabled the “Connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID). Lastly - from and ran the optimizer with the optimal settings enabled.
I will let you know if there are any further issues associated with the problem, but after 12 hours, I feel good about this fix. Chuck S AlphaStealthSYS.
I had one of these a couple of years ago and I sold it because quite frankly it was terrible. It was incredibly temperamental about whether it was going to work or not and most of the time it didn't. I read all sorts at the time saying it would only play nice with certain motherboards.
I was wondering whether this was still true or if any driver updates in the last few years has fixed this? I've just purchased a Dell XPS 15 and I'm looking at purchasing a video output device as it struggles with Premiere playback to a second monitor due to I believe an underpowered GPU. It has a USB-C (thunderbolt 3) and USB 3 ports. To use a thunderbolt shuttle I would need a converter for £90 and that might add further complications and there are no video i/o devices on the market that I can see that can connect to a ub-c port. Adam Simmons wrote:I already have a TB 3 convertor on back order (due in about 2 weeks).
I don't have that laptop but will be testing various BM TB devices using the convertor once I get it on my Clevo P771DM-G I look forward to hearing about your results. Is it the Startech adapter you are buying by any chance? What I would really love is for Blackmagic/AJA/Matrox to bring out a small video i/o device with usb-c connectivity, thus negating the need for an adapter. Surely with all the new macbooks only having usb-c there must be a call for such a device?
First company to make one gets my money.