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My ageing techie-head is struggling with this one, sorry, bit boring for non-techies:
Windows 10 laptop, had it for a couple of years, no problems uptil now. Using it this morning, suddenly lose the internet connection, no problem I thought just reboot the router, that usually works.
It didn't, so tried restarting router again, still nothing. Checked my phone and a tablet, they're both still connected to internet and working OK.
Plugged an ethernet cable from router to laptop, that's working fine too, so must be something wrong on the laptop.
Checked laptop, it's telling me there are 'no wireless adapters' on this device - strange. Checked Event Log, no errors there. Checked hardware devices, wireless adapter is in the list and showing up as being OK.
Didn't want to waste too much time on it, so popped out to Argos and bought a USB wireless adapter, came back home, plugged it in, and it's working fine - in fact it's faster than the built-in adapter!
Not a big deal, as I'm up and running with the USB device, just a bit weird why the built-in wifi adapter just stopped working, but Windows still thinks it's OK, anyone had this before?
Teccie (Windows 10) wifi help please on 20:02 - Jan 20 by Bent_double
Yeah, I don't think Argos will take it back, it was only a tenner, and it's definitely quicker, so will probably keep using it.
I just found out my bluetooth connection was turned on (didn't know I had one on my laptop) . turned it off and the built in Wi-Fi adapter works perfect??
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