Mystery wired and wifi dropouts - getting desperate
My home LAN in the UK has been plagued for weeks by daily dropouts affecting both my wired and wifi networks. Power cycling my router usually fixes things but only for a few hours. This can't be a PC issue because the wifi dropouts also kill my smartphone wifi and my SkyQ TV wifi. And it shouldn't be a router issue as my Linksys Velop router was replaced by a newer model a week ago by a Gigaclear engineer (who also found a faulty fibre connection at the local cabinet which he fixed).
It can't be just a wifi issue either since my home network (router/4 Linksys nodes/2 PCs) is Cat6 hardwired and should function normally if wifi dies. And signal strength/speed isn't an issue because when working properly I get a stable 940 Mbps up and down (wired) with wifi speeds about half that.
It's a mystery because even when my network shuts down, all the usual signs report it as connected and working. The LED lights on my nodes glow blue as they should; and my iMac network preferences panel reports that both ethernet and wifi are connected and active. How can this be? At other times, I do see that the wifi icon in my menubar is greyed out and my network preferences panel reports that my wifi is on but not connected to a network. Sometimes I can reselect my router in the settings but other times it takes a router reboot…although occasionally, everything comes back to life without any intervention from me.
Can anyone please put me out of my misery?
