Windows 10: No internet access every two and a half days...?

I don't get it. Every two and a half days (roughly) I'll get on my workstation to find Outlook and Dropbox disconnected and the globe sitting in my icon tray with no internet connectivity at all. If I open the Network Connections/Change adapter options settings page, disable my NIC, wait a minute then re-enable it I can sometimes get the 'net up and am okay for about a half hour - then it goes dark again. IF, at that point (this also works if I don't disable/re-enable the NIC) I fire up ExpressVPN - I get connectivity back to most things and places. Sometimes certain pages give me grief about being in a certain area or something, or some pages refuse to load (sometimes loading after a while; Google and DuckDuckGo refuse to load, Bing loads fine, Amazon does not, Reddit loads but I can't post for some reason, even though it says I'm logged in) but for the most part I can save any URLs I need. This can last anywhere from a half hour to a couple of days again. If that doesn't work (or if I've been up on the VPN for those two'ish days) a reboot is required which gets me back online again, but starts the clock again.

I've got Verizon FiOS here, multiple machines, devices and phones on this network and, predictably, my workstation is the only one having this issue. Thought maybe the motherboard embedded NIC drivers got updated so rolled them back - no difference. Thought maybe the same NIC was finally dying so got another - no difference. Thought maybe the drivers Microsoft installed for the new NIC weren't good enough or had issues so installed the manufacturer's drivers - no difference. Said to hell with it and did the "Network Reset" in Windows - no difference.

Kind of at my wit's end and I didn't have many to begin with, lol. I'd think something physical (wires, switch, NIC, etc.) might be the problem if the disable-reenable/reboot/VPN didn't work OR if I saw other devices being affected, but that's not the case. Can't pinpoint when it started happening either, but fairly sure it was at least a little while prior to 20H2 upgrade which I did maaaaaybeeeee five? Six weeks ago? I keep forgetting to see if I can access my NAS when this happens, dammit. Though I'm not sure what that would tell me...

Anybody got any ideas?

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Unable to access internet

Original Title: Internet access



Hi Greg,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10. I understand the frustration to wait for something and it is taking a long time.

I would suggest you to perform an Internet troubleshooter by following the steps below.

• Click on start and type ‘troubleshooting’ and press enter.
• Click on ‘View all’ on top left corner.
• Select ‘Internet Connections’ in the list and follow the prompts for troubleshooting.

Also, check if the issue persists by connecting to a different network.



Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write is back for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Can't access to internet

Hi Xuan,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.

We regret the inconvenience caused to you. We will assist you in resolving the issue.

Step 1: I suggest you to run the
internet connection troubleshooter by following the steps below and check if the internet issue is resolved.

• 
  Press Windows icon key on the keyboard, type
  Troubleshooting and select the top most search result.
  
• 
  Click on View all from the left side panel of the window.
  
• 
  Select Internet Connections,
  click on Advanced and check
  Apply repairs automatically option.
  
• 
  Follow the on screen instructions.
  

Step 2: If the issue persist, I suggest you to
uninstall the network adapter
driver from the device manager by following the steps below:

• 
  Press Windows key + X keys on the keyboard and click on
  Device Manager.
  
• 
  Expand the Network adapter driver from the list.
  
• 
  Right click on the driver and click on Uninstall
  option.
  
• 
  Restart the PC to install the network adapters automatically and check if the changes are effective.
  

Step 3: If the issue persist, I suggest you to
update the network adapter driver from the device manager by following the steps below:

• 
  Press Windows key + X keys on the keyboard and click on
  Device Manager.
  
• 
  Expand the Network adapter driver from the list.
  
• 
  Right click on the driver and click on Update
  option.
  
• 
  Follow the on-screen instructions.
  

Write back to us for further assistance, we will be happy to assist.

Thank you.

 

Guidance needed to setup my Home PC access over Internet through browser

I wasn't giving steps on how to get RDP working, that is covered plenty of other places, I just give the steps to make it secure.

RDP. If they aren't tracking your Web browsing, I doubt they are going to track RDP.

And if you start the session from the command prompt it doesn't even put the address in the MRU list.

Though the question that needs to be asked now is, what are you using for your VM lab?