u/serratedsyringe

my computer has been having serious wifi issues that i cannot resolve no matter how much i dig for solutions online. sometimes my wifi network doesn’t even show up, (blank slate on the available networks screen despite over 10 networks being nearby) other times it connects with full bars, but doesn’t actually work at all (saying connected, secured, with full bars, yet won’t load anything in the slightest). most of the time it works but runs very poorly, and this is all ONLY on my pc, with every other device in the household it works flawlessly. there are also two networks that have decided they want to connect automatically despite me never having touched them before, and whenever i click the checkbox to stop automatically connecting, it just re-checks itself instantly, with both foreign networks, and i also cannot forget the networks because they only show up on the available networks menu, and not in the network settings. doing the sfc /scannow thing has done nothing, it always says there’s no problems, same with troubleshooting in the network settings. the task manager has been picked clean of anything unnecessary as well, still no changes. my computer swears up and down everything is working perfectly fine despite it barely ever working at all.

it’s all so random, my computer will work fine some days, and other days it will be working, then all of the sudden everything collapses in on itself and refuses to work again until i give up and try again tomorrow for it only to do the same thing again, and i’m rapidly losing my patience. we even took it to a tech store and had new parts installed to see if it would help, and nope. we also got wifi boosters/extenders (whatever you call them) and those work even worse, if i’m lucky enough to see them in available networks at all. this is extremely frustrating because any time i try to download something, it’s a toss up whether it says it will be an hour, or a month to download, and most of the time it never even finishes and just hits me with an error no matter how long the download is, because my computer refuses to hold a stable connection, and half the time, no connection at all. i have swam through seas of text on countless sites online and no fix i have ever tried has done anything. i really need help because i’m at the point of wanting to smash the thing with a sledgehammer. i’m not tech savvy and am completely lost.

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