Computer Active (UK)

Stop your internet crashing

- Brian Berry

For the past six months, my PC’S Wi-fi was disconnect­ing randomly at regular intervals. I have a two-year-old Windows 10 desktop PC with a standard broadband connection. Upon researchin­g the problem, I found a solution that finally worked.

Press the Windows key, type device manager, then press Enter to open that section on your PC. Here, click the Network Adapters dropdown menu to see all the network adapters on your PC. Right-click the relevant one (mine is Realtek), click Properties, then click the Power Management tab at the top. Here, untick the ‘Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power’ box (see screenshot below), click OK, then reboot your PC. Since doing that, my PC’S Wi-fi hasn’t disconnect­ed randomly even once.

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