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A7000 wifi USB 3.0 adpater keeps disconnecting
I keep having this thing disconnect for a couple seconds every 20 minutes and its very annoying as I work from home. It messes up virtual meetings. I have been searching the internet and it seems lik...
Thanks. I made note of all of that because I had no idea what some of those things meant so I appreciate you taking the time to explain. To be honest I just bought a USB extension so it gives me an extra 4 usb ports and plugged the adapter into one of those. Maybe my USB ports were just going bad. It still disconnects sometimes but its rare now. This should work for awhile until I replace the whole thing with something better.
KimW11 wrote:
To be honest I just bought a USB extension so it gives me an extra 4 usb ports and plugged the adapter into one of those.
These don't always play nicely with things like wifi adapters. It can depend on the drivers for the USB extension.
Ultimately, it will all be down to the drivers for the adapter itself.