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mattshandera
Sep 20, 2020Aspirant
Intel AC 3168 WiFi Adapter Intermittent connection to Orbi Network
Team, TL'DR: Two identical gaming Cyberpower gaming PCs (purchased this year) both of which are having intermittent connections issues to the Orbi network. They were rock-solid UNTIL Orbo was i...
FURRYe38
Sep 23, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Does tis problem only occur when your playing Fortnite?
mattshandera wrote:Sadly,
None of these adjustments have fixed the issues with the two PCs using the Intel AC 3168 WiFi Adapter.
It does appear that these issues are more releated to Fortnite than any other application? Could that be a useful piece of insight FURRYe38 ?
mattshandera
Sep 24, 2020Aspirant
No. After carefully observing the two PCs in question, the network:
- sometimes will just disapper as a wifi network.
- Sometimes stay connected but show no internet
- sometimes connect at an extremely slow rate
It's exaserbating to say the least. Orbi support is recommending a "shock" reset (which I assume is intended to be Factory Reset).
I've even tried that in the past with no change.