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

In sci.electronics.repair, on Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:18:49 +0000, wasbit
<[email protected]> wrote:

>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.

That's what I've been doing, but those questions still interested me.