Windows 10: Tethered cell only works once...

Dell 7740, Windows 10 Pro (whatever MS just dumped on us), Moto G7 Power

I'm currently using a Moto G7 Power on Visible (which uses Verizon towers) tethered for Internet (it's a long story, don't ask)

I have NO idea if it's the phone or the laptop.

Boot the laptop, connect the phone, turn on tethering. Works fine. Connects to websites quickly (or as quickly as seems normal), does normal Internet stuff, works. Shut OFF the tethering, take cell phone, go do normal day things. Come back, plug in, turn on tethering, totally SUCKS (I THINK thats the technical term).

Whether I use Firefox or Chrome (or as near as I can tell any other browser) it sits. It takes forever for establishing secure connection to go away. Usually, it fails and I get:

Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to testmy.net.

PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. This happens going into GOOGLE! Or testmy.net, or tenforums.com or pretty much ANY SITE.


From CHROME I sometimes get:
This site cant be reached
testmy.net unexpectedly closed the connection.

Try:
Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics

ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

On the rare occasions it DOES connect to a site, EVERYTHING is GLACIALLY slow. Put in an address and it sometimes says its performing TLS handshake with somebody. Then it eventually (we're not talking sub-second here, we're talking 10s of seconds into minutes) connects or fails.

When I was connected to the home network, by wire or wirelessly, this never happened. Even now, at greater distance and a weaker signal, when I can connect to the house wireless this doesnt happen.

If I reboot the laptop it appears to tether fine til I disconnect the cell phone again for an extended period (if I just shut off the tether for 30 seconds, the laptop is trying to reconnect and when I turn it back on, it does).

If I reboot the cell phone, it APPEARS to work normally.

When the tethering is not working on the laptop, I can go to the same website on the cell phone and it seems fine.

I have noticed that when I turn off the tethering in preparation to taking the phone, the laptop starts a process of attempting to reconnect, 1 second, then 3, 5, 11, and so on Im not sure what the progression of wait times are, but I presume eventually the laptop gives up trying to reconnect and then wont reconnect?

BTW: When I DO reconnect, the laptop often sees it as a new network. Im currently connected to Network 21. Im not SURE what causes this either, and/or whether theres something I should do to make it connected to a previous network or what

I can turn on the cell phones hotspot, but thats NOT a good choice as its very speed limited. It DOES appear to connect slightly quicker, but frequently drops and generally isnt NEARLY as good as being tethered.

Im FERVENTLY hoping its some setting on the laptop cause if I have to do a chat with Visible Ill probably shove something sharp in my eye itll hurt LESS. Im sure theyre nice folks and they may try hard, but they are NOT going to be useful in this case (or the vast majority of other things weve chatted about.

:)

 

Windows 10 infinite restart black screen


The tutorials provided are just a list of troubleshooting steps. Use only the steps which apply to you.

Since none of the troubleshooting steps here worked, I'd suggest you do a Clean install.

John

 

Bluetooth Tethering not working


Trying to tether my Windows 10 1151 to my Android 5.1.1 device over Bluetooth. I swear it used to work before 10...

Tethering enabled on Android. Devices paired successfully.

On Windows - Clicking Taskbar - Bluetooth - Join a PAN - Click Device - Connect using... only shows direct connection... What happened to Bluetooth?

What's the trick?

 

Mirroring laptop screen to TV - works once only.

I found connecting to the TV hit and miss. I just did it and it took at least 6 tries. I found it sometimes makes a difference whether the laptop starts the connections first or the TV. All I can do is show how I do it and hope that helps.

BTW, my Samsung TV is ten years old and doesn't have Bluetooth. That is OK because I connect to my Samsung [BD]J6300 Blue-Ray player instead.

On the Blue-Ray player I open the Screen Mirroring app that comes with it.

On the laptop I open the notification area on the right side of the screen and...

• Turn on Bluetooth if it is not on
• Select Project
• On the bottom select Connect to a wireless display
• I then select [BD]J6300 from the list
• Within 30 seconds it will connect and display