Hi! Everything was fine last night. I was gaming, browsing the Internet, and more. This morning I turned my PC and it has completely forgotten what Wifi is apparently. I work from home so this is horrible for me. Posting from Mobile. My mobo doesn't have wifi built in so I've used an M.2 wifi adaptor and it's been fine since day 1. Any help please?
#Suddenly, no WiFi!
idle hemlock
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Hi! Everything was fine last night. I was gaming, browsing the Internet, and mor...
what have you checked? are you sure the wifi stopped working or is it possible other wifi devices in your house cant connect to your router?
idle hemlock
The house wifi is good. Other devices are good. My adapter even is lit up green on the motherboard indicating that it is working well. But Windows won't recognize even the adapter being there. It's acting like there are no WiFi devices or anything.
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check in device manager to see if windows is showing any unrecognized devices or if the wifi adapter is installed and working in the network adapters tree
your adapter is an intel ax200
idle hemlock
It does not show it
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It does not show it
check below in the device manager for a yellow triangle indicating an unrecognized device with a problem
idle hemlock
check below in the device manager for a yellow triangle indicating an unrecogniz...
Nothing there either
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Nothing there either
have you rebooted since the problem happened?
idle hemlock
Yes, I have. I restarted a couple times. I Checked all the connections, everything is connected well, green light is on, the antenna are fine... they were all fine last night, and suddenly it stopped working this am
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the m.2 adapter might have died
normally windows would see something wrong but in this case it might be that the adapter isnt sending signal through and only getting power
idle hemlock
What's the green light for? I thought it indicated it was working?
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What's the green light for? I thought it indicated it was working?
probably just indicates it's powered
if it blinks when it's working correctly, it likely has a defect or it's possible the wifi adapter is defective
might be the m.2 adapter killed the wifi adapter or the m.2 adapter just died
cheap chinese stuff will suddenly die
idle hemlock
That makes sense... Good thing it's not expensive
And I do have ethernet, so work is doable
It's just not good ethernet haha
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why is it not good?
idle hemlock
Just the speed wasn't much better than the wifi
I'll just order another wifi adaptor, it seems. Thanks for your help
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Just the speed wasn't much better than the wifi
were you using the speed? im guessing you have a gigabit adapter and that intel adapter is actually slower than wired Gb ethernet
@idle hemlocki would get a pcie adapter instead of an m.2 so you can have a second m.2 nvme drive
that bottom slot would be where you put it
loud vineBOT
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and you can run the cables into the case where the m.2 adapter had them run
idle hemlock
that bottom slot would be where you put it
That's a great idea!
Do you have a recommended one? Or would i need a specific kind? I believe my mobo has PCI_E 3.0
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doesnt matter since they will all be kind of meh anyway
they will be pcie x1 cards and it will work in any pcie slot of any generation
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the card itself isa x1 card
any pcie card that fits the slot will work in any pcie slot from any generation going back to pcie 1.1 as long as the system recognizes it
x1 cards fit in x1 x4 x8 x16 slots
that bottom slot on your board is x16 length but only wired for x4 bandwidth but will work with an x1 to x16 card
idle hemlock
Oh, okay. So, the smaller part on the left allows for the card to slot in. The remaining portion on the right will only get used if the card is that big? Sorry, trying to understand but don't know how to word it
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an x16 card would actually work on an x1 slot if it was open on the end
that is how the gpu mining rigs were using so many gpus, they used x1 adapters'
that is what i mean by open end
the left side would be toward the back of the case where you screw the card in and that open part of the slot would allow any length of pcie card to be used in that x1 slot
for your pcie wifi adapter, none of this matters since it wil work in any pcie slot
idle hemlock
That's interesting, yea.
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oh and i would suggest getting a pcie wifi card that comes with a faster wifi adapter than your intel ax200
loud vineBOT
idle hemlock
Thanks for the rec!
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2.4Gb/s on wifi 5 or 6
i was just showing you one that is faster, you may want a different model with more ratings
idle hemlock
Oh, was the ax200 just 1gb/s?
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nah that is actually only 866Mb/s
idle hemlock
How can you tell?
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that ubit has an intel ax210s which is a wifi 6e adapter
probably more than enough for whatever you're doing since you will need a router that supports wifi 5/6/6e to actually use that 2.4Gb/s speed
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How can you tell?
i looked at the specs
idle hemlock
Oh, that makes sense.
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also dont confuse 2.4GHz with 2.4Gb/s
2.4GHz has slower data speeds than 5GHz wifi but gives better signal strength
newer routers usually have automatic signal swapping to give you the best speeds depending on your distance or you can usually set up the threshold for when it swaps