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Netgear AC1900 WiFi Adapter losing connection every 20 - 30 minutes
Normally I use Ethernet on my desktop PC, but we moved into a new flat and it is really complicated to get something going, so no Ethernet for me (also not over electrics). So I started using this N...
I bought an extremely long and thin ethernet cable and managed to place it around the flat. Although it's a bit ugly here and there, connection is fast and stable.
So I'm getting rid of the AC1900 WiFi Adapter.
The problems I had were definitely specific ot my setup, maybe antivirus (Spybot S&D), RAM overload or any other weird things, who knows.
So I plugged the WiFi Adapter directly in the PC, removing the extension cable + completely reinstalling the Netgear drivers. (So RunSwUSB go reactivated, but I kept it this way.)
It started really good, I got a consistant 200Mbps for about half an hour. Then it suddenly dropped completely and "runs" on ~50Mps since then. Any tips on how I can trace to the cause?
Update:
I reinstalled yet again, but with the extension cable and it gets up to 200Mbps too, so there shouldn't be any problems with it.
Although the ping jumps up to 300ms every minute. (Are those ping spikes from the windows wifi scans?)
Sidenote:
when I scanned in Netgear Genie for an update, it got stuck on 20% and the speed dropped drastically, even going offline: