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Along with a genuine WIN10 fresh install, I replaced a hdd to a ssd for my mom's HP laptop a couple weeks back and ever since, she's had a wifi disconnection issue but just in her own house's room. Watching Youtube it would stop, browsing the web - I think it says something generic about DNS too, but then I can reconnect to the wifi less than a minute later. Happens once every hour, half hour or so.
They have a Dell laptop 7ft away from hers that sits right next to the FIOS router using wifi that never drops. Also, my smartphone was still connected when her laptop dropped. You'd think it's her laptop issue, but here at my and another house, her wifi on her laptop never dropped. I went over there to reset her router but it did disconnect again. I notice she had it plugged into some makeshift extension cord box and that seems to be the only difference between their 2 laptops.
She then started using another outlet without an extension cord, and it drops her a lot less often, but it still drops her. Could this be an electrical issue at all, where the wifi antenna in the laptop is cutting in and out? New SSD-related somehow? I should also mention the laptop battery, though now always plugged into AC, doesn't hold a charge on its own anymore. The house too has had some electrical problems... I think it's only rated at 100 amps and when I lived there, my PC would sometimes cause electrical issues too.
They have a Dell laptop 7ft away from hers that sits right next to the FIOS router using wifi that never drops. Also, my smartphone was still connected when her laptop dropped. You'd think it's her laptop issue, but here at my and another house, her wifi on her laptop never dropped. I went over there to reset her router but it did disconnect again. I notice she had it plugged into some makeshift extension cord box and that seems to be the only difference between their 2 laptops.
She then started using another outlet without an extension cord, and it drops her a lot less often, but it still drops her. Could this be an electrical issue at all, where the wifi antenna in the laptop is cutting in and out? New SSD-related somehow? I should also mention the laptop battery, though now always plugged into AC, doesn't hold a charge on its own anymore. The house too has had some electrical problems... I think it's only rated at 100 amps and when I lived there, my PC would sometimes cause electrical issues too.
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