I have been using this wifi setup for about a year now. I've got a PC, Mac, phone, and tablet, and the PC's connectivity has always been a bit spottier than the other devices, but today it just threw a full-on temper tantrum and has been refusing to connect for several hours, even though I'm posting this from the Mac literally right next to it on the same network.
I have both a USB wifi adapter and a PCI one, and both of them can see the network, but both get the "Can't connect to this network" error when I try to connect to it.
Weirdly, when I first got home and booted it up, it was actually working fine for a couple of minutes before it went down. It's done that in the past too, but usually I just give it a minute and it comes back on. No such luck tonight.
Solutions I've tried:
- waiting for it to turn back on on its own
- restarting the computer
- shutting down the computer, waiting, and turning it back on
- hotspotting with my phone (technically worked, but was so painfully slow it was more frustrating than no internet at all)
- using the hotspot to update my device drivers (no updates available)
- forgetting the network and trying to connect again (still can't connect, but now need to enter security key every time I try)
- network reset: this renamed my wifi adapters from "wi-fi 3" and "wi-fi 4" to "wi-fi" and "wi-fi 2" in the connection manager, but did not solve the problem
- sacrificing a goat to ug-qualtoth (didn't actually, but thought about it)
I did not try resetting the router because 1. none of my other devices are having any problems whatsoever and 2. I share my house with five other people.
Are there any other solutions I can try short of buying yet another wifi adapter and crossing my fingers that it actually works this time?
e: Thanks for the tips. I will attempt them when I get home tonight and report back with success or failure. I did test this morning before I left for work and found that it did not in fact magically fix itself overnight, so... yay for consistency, I guess.
I was at cat lounge/rescue/adoption place in my area recently (not to adopt, just to pet the cats) and one of the cats, a maybe ~7mo female tabby with a slightly fucked up ear named Maggie, after spending most of the time I was there hiding in a corner, decided she liked me, came up to me, sat down on my lap, and refused to budge. One of the staff members came up to say "hey man you're at your time limit, but I can see you're in a situation here so just... whenever is chill"