Wifi driver behavior

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[Zaphyrus]

Greetings this time  i have some questions regardong my wifi driver      so i have  a intel dual band wireless  ac 1360 driver  and lately in my house  i have been having connection issues with my modem   but sometimes my laptop too   even when the modem is fine.  My question is how to tell  if my wifi driver is going bad?   And  also i have noticed that sometimes my wifi reset itself due to bad connection  is this a normal behavior?   Also how to tell if its my modem and not my laptop?

Just someone who don't want Windows to mess with its computer.

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You need a wifi monitor app either on your phone (very handy) or in the PC. Check the signal status when you are having problems and you should be able to spot the issue.

InSSIDer is the standard, but is no longer free and has many competitors.
For the PC: Acrylic WiFi Home, WiFiInfoView, Homedale, etc.
Android phones: WiFi Analyzer, etc.
iphones: Fing, etc.

cheers, Paul

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Thanks Mr.Paul I will start monitoring the issue

as a precaution I re-installed my Wi-fi driver and updated it to my lastest downloaded version (if not I will install its last version, as my Wi-fi driver in no longer supported)

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When’s the last time you rebooted your modem/router? Any firmware updates available for them?

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Since I been having issues with my connection on the modem, pretty much evey time my modem lost it’s signal.

I will try to check firmware updates.

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May want to blow out any dust especially if the router has some age. I had one once that was mounted to a western wall. During evening hours the sun would warm the wall just enough that the router would drop out. Moving it off the wall solved the issue.

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[Zaphyrus]

That’s so illustrative I will try it out to see if that happens.

but to be honesto I don’t really care if my  Modem is malfunctioning (I can talk to my phone company to replace it )    what I want to know is that  my network card is working and it has nothing to do with my connection issues.

for now I am relieved that there are alos of things I want to discard before blaming my Network card.

 

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