Annoying issue for sure and not sure who to blame here? Realtek? ASUS? Microsoft? I guess it doesn't matter, I'm not glad that people are having this issue, but I am glad to find out I am not the only one. The latest driver for Realtek 8821AE Wireless I could find was, from some random driver download site.
I have tested with Linux Mint LiveCD as well and the WLAN card did work normally and as I mentioned, Windows 8.1 works fine.
One guy in this thread mentions that it could be hardware issue, and it might be for him, but personally, I think it is just a software driver issue, at least on my computer. I am using driver from ASUS' website from 2013. My solution was to just go back to Windows 8.1 and I have had no issues since. I got the exact same issues as you did, bluescreens, connection dropping, all that even after clean installing the OS.
I had Windows 10 and it worked (at least I didn't notice any issues), but after the Anniversary Update it just broke the WLAN card. I have the exact same WLAN card in my ASUS laptop with exact same issue. Hey man, did you manage to fix this issue for yourself? Every time.Įdit2: Also, the router is confirmed to NOT be the issue, as the same behavior persists despite acquiring a new 802.11ac (previous was wireless-N) router in December. But I take thirty seconds to read an article in a single open browser window with nothing else open or uploading/downloading - boom. I can and have played online games for hours straight without a single drop. Or anyone else got any ideas why this keeps happening?Įdit: Note, as long as my connection stays active, everything works fine. Is there a way I can force it to refresh the network list every few seconds to prevent it from idling? Bit of a hack, but I'd settle for that. I even tried toggling these on and back off just in case they were bugged. But I double checked every network related device in Device Manager and the "Allow windows to turn off this device" feature is unchecked, as is the wireless state management feature in Windows power settings (set to Maximum Performance). I had assumed it was some kind of power saving feature. However, if I click on the connection icon on the system tray, it will pull up the list of available WiFi networks, and for a moment it will only show my (currently connected) network, but after a second it will populate with the other networks in range (neighbors, etc), and the moment it does, my connection comes back. The connection icon still shows connected, but I get page load errors/connection errors on games, etc. But now I've still got an issue that has been plaguing me since the beginning.īasically if my connection goes idle even for a moment (meaning nothing downloading, no pages loading, etc), I frequently and suddenly become unable to connect to anything. Previously I posted on r/Windows10 about some issues with bluescreening when trying to update the driver, but I got all that sorted out thanks to some help. So, I've got a Realtek 8821AE Wireless adapter and Windows 10. Not getting any help over on r/techsupport, so decided to post here.
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