CarvedDuck
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Hi I have two wifi APs in the home and only one has an Internet connection. the other is to access the wired LAN.
Last week I updated from win8 to win8.1 and thought everything was going well until I started getting wired LAN dropouts.
I have traced it back to 8.1 handling connection to wifi APs. In win8, I was able to have "Connect automatically" for BOTH wifi adapters on this laptop. Now when I try to connect to the non-Internet AP, win8.1 announces (correctly) "Limited access" and that's what win8 did too. BUT, win8.1 waits a few seconds then drops the connection with a useless message, "help me solve connectin problems," where there is NO problem. A limited connection for the AP to the wired LAN is OK as it was in 8.
So now I am stuck with no home LAN access unless I drop the Internet AP and connect to the LAN AP.
Also, in the great wisdom of 8.1, because it is only a "limited" connection, it does not remember the Passphrase so I have to type it in every time. So much for progress.
Can anyone please suggest what to do to get past this behavior and have a "limited" connection as OK as it is with win8?
Last week I updated from win8 to win8.1 and thought everything was going well until I started getting wired LAN dropouts.
I have traced it back to 8.1 handling connection to wifi APs. In win8, I was able to have "Connect automatically" for BOTH wifi adapters on this laptop. Now when I try to connect to the non-Internet AP, win8.1 announces (correctly) "Limited access" and that's what win8 did too. BUT, win8.1 waits a few seconds then drops the connection with a useless message, "help me solve connectin problems," where there is NO problem. A limited connection for the AP to the wired LAN is OK as it was in 8.
So now I am stuck with no home LAN access unless I drop the Internet AP and connect to the LAN AP.
Also, in the great wisdom of 8.1, because it is only a "limited" connection, it does not remember the Passphrase so I have to type it in every time. So much for progress.
Can anyone please suggest what to do to get past this behavior and have a "limited" connection as OK as it is with win8?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer V5
- CPU
- i5
- Memory
- 6GB
- Hard Drives
- 240GB Sandisk SSD
- Internet Speed
- 4G/LTE