Mouse to the bottom-right, ‘Search’ again. Second bit: Go into your network settings. As it turns out there’s another place to control a similar setting. After a (longer, to be fair) while it disconnected again.
I say should, as it didn’t actually work very well for me. Switch it up to Maximum Performance which should stop it from disconnecting at random. Open up the “Wireless Adapter Settings” then “Power Saving Mode” and make sure it doesn’t disconnect your wifi to save power by setting (at least AC, but I went with both because I live life on the edge). Piecing together giblets of information from the internet I figured out Windows 8 likes to switch off power to the wifi adapter if the computer goes idle for long enough.įirst bit: We’ll disable it in power management: Slide the mouse down to the bottom-right corner, then once your right-side navigation thing pops up go to the top ‘Search’ (ClassicShell: Press the Windows key In the text box at the bottom) type “Edit power plan” and click the result.Ĭhange advanced settings. Then it did it again so I started searching. Plagued by the constant disconnecting from the wifi whenever I wandered off for a few moments to do something in meatspace I had to find out what was going on.
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