Re: Chinese or Realtek; can't connect with wifi

On 27/02/2025 14:49, micky wrote:
> I've been having trouble with with the wifi receiver in my fairly old
> Acer laptop**, but, showing good foresight, years before I had any
> trouble, I bought a USB Wireless LAN card***
> 
> The LAN card is made in China by a company I've never heard of but its
> entry in Device Manage says Realtek.  Is it really Realtek?  I see that
> name a lot but now I"m not sure it's for real.
> 
> 
> **For a couple years, the wireless would stop working after a couple
> weeks, so I'd connect a cable, then a couple weeks later, that would
> stop working so I'd disconnect it and use wifi.  And on in on.
>    But in recent months, I used only the cable. Getting ready for a trip
> to see my brother, I unplugged it and the wifi wouldn't connect.  I ran
> the troubleshooter and it said it couldn't find the problem, but it
> would Reset and restart windows and that might help, and restarting is a
> nuisance but each time it did all of that, I worked.  Five or 6 times
> until I had sleep or hibernate. Then I had to start over with the
> troubleshooter.  Any idea of how to fix this?.
> 
> ***which may or may not be what's currently connecting versus the
> built-in lan card.
> 

If you really have flakey wifi, turn it off & use a USB dongle.


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wasbit