Has anyone had this happen to them?
I live in a very remote area. I have a satellite connection that works well enough for one person, so I generally leave that for the missus. I rely on my cell phone, which is often better than the satellite connection. The missus is also more tolerant of being offline. She consumes content while I create content.
I go a long time between reboots, especially on the system I'm using right now. The system I'm using right now is the one with the weird behavior.
For the life of me, my phone connection wouldn't work. I'd drop packets when I tested a ping. Pages would refuse to load.
So, I fired up another cell phone that's connected to the same wireless network provided by the other cell phone. (Confused yet?)
I ran a speed test and, sure enough, it was in the 5 MB/sec range. I'll take it. That's more than enough for what I do.
Except the computer in question still got timeouts and wouldn't connect. I could connect to the wired connection - the satellite. That worked as well as it ever does.
I figured I'd try rebooting. So, I did. Sure enough, this resolved the problem. I have no idea why.
Has this ever happened to you? Wifi previously worked just fine. Wifi was currently working just fine, just not on this device. Rebooting restored wireless functionality to the right state. There are no more dropped packets. Pages load quickly. Things are going just fine.
I'm not sure why I thought about rebooting. This doesn't sound like a rebooting situation, but it worked. I'm now connected just fine.
The only thing I can think of is that I'd swap (fairly regularly) to satellite when the cell wasn't connected and something hung in that department.
I live in a very remote area. I have a satellite connection that works well enough for one person, so I generally leave that for the missus. I rely on my cell phone, which is often better than the satellite connection. The missus is also more tolerant of being offline. She consumes content while I create content.
I go a long time between reboots, especially on the system I'm using right now. The system I'm using right now is the one with the weird behavior.
For the life of me, my phone connection wouldn't work. I'd drop packets when I tested a ping. Pages would refuse to load.
So, I fired up another cell phone that's connected to the same wireless network provided by the other cell phone. (Confused yet?)
I ran a speed test and, sure enough, it was in the 5 MB/sec range. I'll take it. That's more than enough for what I do.
Except the computer in question still got timeouts and wouldn't connect. I could connect to the wired connection - the satellite. That worked as well as it ever does.
I figured I'd try rebooting. So, I did. Sure enough, this resolved the problem. I have no idea why.
Has this ever happened to you? Wifi previously worked just fine. Wifi was currently working just fine, just not on this device. Rebooting restored wireless functionality to the right state. There are no more dropped packets. Pages load quickly. Things are going just fine.
I'm not sure why I thought about rebooting. This doesn't sound like a rebooting situation, but it worked. I'm now connected just fine.
The only thing I can think of is that I'd swap (fairly regularly) to satellite when the cell wasn't connected and something hung in that department.