Wifi disconnecting after sleep on Win 10
Good day folks. I don't usually like asking for help with any sort of Windows issues...I consider myself competent enough to handle them on my own and also they're usually very generic and hard to pinpoint, since we're talking about a software bug and not about hardware troubleshooting, but hey: another man's opinion never hurts, especially with google doing a rather poor job at retrieving more "intricate" results about the issue and its possible fixes, other than generic stuff from Microsoft and others who suggest "disable this" or "reinstall and upgrade drivers", you know all that usual jazz we're all to familiar with and anybody with a bit of computer literacy would do on their own anyway...
That was a mouthful
Now for the actual problem: my dad has recently got himself an Asus laptop (I THINK it's an X542 or something) which is working just fine and dandy running Win 10, it's quite happy, except for one little quirk: the wifi seems to disconnect at random....I fixed it a couple of times through the traditional method of reinstalling the adapter, but it kept happening over and over, sometimes as often as 10-15 minutes and obviously deleting and reinstalling the network adapter is not a pleasant experience when using a laptop....I was starting to think it's a Windows bug, possibly following an update my pops wasn't aware of because it started doing this out of the blue.
I gave him a wireless dongle to use (just to rule out the possibility of a "bad" network adapter) and the same thing seems to happen, ALTHOUGH the dongle behaves differently: while he's able to use it properly for hours on end without issues, when the system resumes from an S3 (sleep) state, the wifi is disconnected once again...is this a system bug with nothing I can do about it other than to disable sleep, or does anyone have any clever ideas beyond what has already been described as "generic", including messing with power settings or disabling the "allow Windows to turn off this device to save power" under device manager. Must admit, all this has been happening with the "stock" drivers windows found for both the built-in card and the dongle(s) (since I actually tried a different one as well)...perhaps some bug in the driver is keeping it from resuming from S3...
That was a mouthful
Now for the actual problem: my dad has recently got himself an Asus laptop (I THINK it's an X542 or something) which is working just fine and dandy running Win 10, it's quite happy, except for one little quirk: the wifi seems to disconnect at random....I fixed it a couple of times through the traditional method of reinstalling the adapter, but it kept happening over and over, sometimes as often as 10-15 minutes and obviously deleting and reinstalling the network adapter is not a pleasant experience when using a laptop....I was starting to think it's a Windows bug, possibly following an update my pops wasn't aware of because it started doing this out of the blue.
I gave him a wireless dongle to use (just to rule out the possibility of a "bad" network adapter) and the same thing seems to happen, ALTHOUGH the dongle behaves differently: while he's able to use it properly for hours on end without issues, when the system resumes from an S3 (sleep) state, the wifi is disconnected once again...is this a system bug with nothing I can do about it other than to disable sleep, or does anyone have any clever ideas beyond what has already been described as "generic", including messing with power settings or disabling the "allow Windows to turn off this device to save power" under device manager. Must admit, all this has been happening with the "stock" drivers windows found for both the built-in card and the dongle(s) (since I actually tried a different one as well)...perhaps some bug in the driver is keeping it from resuming from S3...