In sake of full disclosure, I am not tech savvy in the least and may well be missing something obvious. I have looked on the web and haven't found anything that helped, so turn my lonely eyes to SoSH.
The players: 2 year old Asus laptop. Nothing great, but have not had any hardware issues.
Netgear WNDR3700v3 router
Modem from Comcast
A few days ago my laptop stopped connecting to the Wifi network it uses after 2 years of having no problems. The strange thing is, every other device we have (iphones, ipads, work laptop) still connect to this network perfectly fine. The router broadcasts in 2.4 and 5, but the computer can only see the 2.4. I have other devices broken up between the 2 networks, so I don't think it is overload.
At first I thought maybe the internal wifi was shot, but the laptop apparently can connect to the neighbor's free Xfinity network.
Is there something that would all of a sudden make one particular network incommunicado to a laptop? The laptop can see the network, it just can't connect (or occasionally may connect briefly, but "limited" and have no internet access).
I have bought a cheap USB wifi adapter as a stopgap (which also works, so far as a cheap adapter goes), but wondered if there was something i was overlooking. I have tried resetting the router, modem, laptop. I have deleted and reinstalled the laptop wifi drivers, etc.
Any ideas? The ONLY thing different is that the night before this happened, we both got new iPhones (6s). Not sure how that could affect anything, but that is only difference I can point to.
Thanks for any thoughts- sorry if too verbose.
The players: 2 year old Asus laptop. Nothing great, but have not had any hardware issues.
Netgear WNDR3700v3 router
Modem from Comcast
A few days ago my laptop stopped connecting to the Wifi network it uses after 2 years of having no problems. The strange thing is, every other device we have (iphones, ipads, work laptop) still connect to this network perfectly fine. The router broadcasts in 2.4 and 5, but the computer can only see the 2.4. I have other devices broken up between the 2 networks, so I don't think it is overload.
At first I thought maybe the internal wifi was shot, but the laptop apparently can connect to the neighbor's free Xfinity network.
Is there something that would all of a sudden make one particular network incommunicado to a laptop? The laptop can see the network, it just can't connect (or occasionally may connect briefly, but "limited" and have no internet access).
I have bought a cheap USB wifi adapter as a stopgap (which also works, so far as a cheap adapter goes), but wondered if there was something i was overlooking. I have tried resetting the router, modem, laptop. I have deleted and reinstalled the laptop wifi drivers, etc.
Any ideas? The ONLY thing different is that the night before this happened, we both got new iPhones (6s). Not sure how that could affect anything, but that is only difference I can point to.
Thanks for any thoughts- sorry if too verbose.