Wi-Fi is present in many homes, businesses and companies. Its popularity skyrocketed years ago and today it is something so fundamental that we might not be able to ‘live without it’. If you think I’m exaggerating, think for a moment about all the devices you have connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi, and what would happen if that connection stopped working forever.
Over the years, Wi-Fi has evolved with the introduction of many standards and has also seen significant improvement with the advent of new hardware, which has generally not only been prepared to take advantage of the growth in raw connections. speed, but also included functional and safety improvements.
Despite all these developments and improvements, however, Wi-Fi connectivity still not perfect because it remains vulnerable to classical scope, stability, and interference issues, and in many cases can result in errors that may initially seem impossible to identify.
I’ve also had Wi-Fi issues more than once and it’s weird because I didn’t have the same situation with a cable connection, that means this didn’t bother me. I know how annoying it can be and how much time it can be wasted for us, and that’s why I wanted to share this article with you, where we can see how we can solve Wi-Fi connection issues.
Wi-Fi issues and solutions: these are the most effective
As users, we may end up suffering from a wide range of Wi-Fi connection issues, but in this article we will focus on the three most common: complete or partial loss of connection, poor performance, and complete absence of connection (we cannot connect to the Internet). The solutions we offer you are not just one of the easiest and fastest to usethey are also some of the most effective and work with all the problems we have mentioned.
Make sure you have logged in correctly
If you’re reconnecting to a Wi-Fi connection, so you have to re-enter your data, it’s important to make sure you’re making the sessions correctly, which means you’ve entered your network name and password correctly. It’s more important than it seems, because I’ve come across users who have said they can’t connect to their Wi-Fi network, even though they “did everything right”, and it turned out that made a mistake in username, password, or both.
Because it’s important? It’s very simple, because if you don’t enter the data correctly, you won’t be able to connect to a Wi-Fi network or have an Internet connection. Double check that the username and password you are entering are correct.
Restart the router
This would be the second step I would take if I had a problem connecting to Wi-Fi, as it is one of the fastest, easiest and most efficient. Remember to restart the router It is not enough to turn it off and onyou have to unplug it for at least one minuteand reconnect it.
Why is it effective? Well, because restarting the router can solve problems and errors that were latent and that may eventually become a source of problems. This problem is similar to what happens when you restart your PC, for example, a memory dump occurs, which causes the system to boot “clean”, which can help resolve certain issues.
And also restart the affected device
Because sometimes, even if we restart the router, the problem may persist due to a conflict or error that was not resolved on our smartphone, computer, or device that we used to connect to the Internet. I generally recommend that you restart the router and the device at the same time.
Why is it effective? For the same reason we told you when we talked about restarting the router, but it’s important to do it at the same time, because both devices start from scratch, that is, they receive a restart that can resolve these hidden errors. If we leave the device without a restart, we risk that another restart was unnecessary.
Do you have an intruder on your Wi-Fi connection?
This is another evil that occurs more often than we would think. If we have an intruder, it can be consumes a lot of bandwidth which causes our Wi-Fi connection to work really badly and can leave us directly offline. To effectively detect intruders, we must enter the settings of our router and search the list of connected devices. If we find one that is not ours, the conclusion is simple, we have intruders. To get rid of it, just change your Wi-Fi password.
Why is it effective? Because intruders can eventually consume the full bandwidth of our Wi-Fi connection and leave us without bandwidth. If this happens, we may have a connection, but it may not really work, or it may work so slowly that the user experience will eventually be terrible.
change band
This may seem unimportant, but if we have the option to connect to the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands we should try both and determine if the problems persist or are instead limited to one of them. This case personally happened to me with a TV that was very far from the router and which constantly lost connection in the 5 GHz band (Wi-Fi 5), but worked well with the 2.4 GHz band (Wi-Fi 4). ).
Why is it effective? This is because we may have a problem with the signal range, which is solved by switching to the 2.4 GHz band, whose range is greater than the 5 GHz band. In my case, it meant a loss of speed, but maintaining at 32 Mbps on average was still enough for you to enjoy Netflix in 4K.
Reset the network adapter
This is especially useful when we have connection issues from a computer running Windows 10 or Windows 11, in fact a few weeks ago I had a problem with Windows 11 after receiving an update to that operating system which caused my Wi-Fi connection to stop working randomly and after wasting a lot of time that was the only way to fix it. It’s very simple, we just have to enter “Settings> Network & Internet> Status> Network Restore”.
Why is it effective? Well, because it performs a complete reset of settings, configurations and network adapters and returns them to the factory state. This makes it possible to eliminate possible misconfigurations and settings and end the conflicts and failures that caused the problems we had with our Wi-Fi connection.
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