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Wifi signal stops as soon as a particular laptop is switched on.
My Router worked fine and gave me no problems until a friend came visiting. Everytime he turns on his laptop, the wifi signal of the whole house goes down. And it turns back on as soon as the laptop ...
When you say ‘the wifi signal of the whole house goes down’ what do you mean? Do you mean that you can no longer connect to the network, have limited connectivity, or the router SSID is no longer visible in a wireless scan? Is that particular laptop set to obtain IP addresses automatically or has it been set with a static IP address?
The router is no longer visible for all devices. Yes, my laptop is configured to obtain IP addresses automatically