Windows 10: Super unstable wifi

Laptop - Acer Nitro 5

Wifi Adapter: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Wireless Network Adapter

ISP: Rogers


Wifi crashes a bunch and is super laggy. Used to be super solid for a year, yet now I lag hard in games and usually crashes during matches. It's very random, too. Sometimes I get 3 hours of solid usage before it crashes, other times it crashes 5 times in 2 minutes. Constantly have to use troubleshooter which either gives 2 responses - "Default gateway not available" or "There is a issue with the broadband modem". I'm not even sure it's my wifi adapter as sometimes when I use my phone it's stuck loading a website and the next time I try it's fast again. Things I tried:

-Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers

-Disabling the 'cut power to network adapter' option

-Resetting network settings in windows to factory default

-Downloading the latest drivers for my network adapter

-Resetting router

-Plugging in to ethernet was stable, but still had an odd lagspike and plus my cable is super short

-Trying different frequencies 2.4ghz used to be stable now it has massive lagspikes, but rarely crashes

-Cleaning my laptop

-Using inSSIDer - my channels are clear and have a good signal.

-I get 200mb/s download on speedtest


Kinda at my wit's end. I'm not sure it's a software issue, hardware issue, router issue, isp issue, or all of them. My router gets a ton of "critical error - no ranging response received" as well. My adapter says it's working fine, though I don't trust that. Other electronics experience lagspikes as well, though I don't use them enough to expierence a crash. A couple months ago rogers installed new wires into the ground and my friends have been expierencing some instability as well. I'm not sure which one it is.

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Highly Unstable Wifi Connection

From the day I bought my computer, my wifi-conectivity has been unstable. It has always been annoying me, but recently the coonection has become so unstable that I daily feel the urge to throw the laptop against a wall or out the window... So I hope somebody
can give me the advice that will finally fix my wifi-problems.

The things is that my computer often disconnects (sometimes every 5 minutes or less) from the internet. When I click the wifi-icon, I usually can see my own network and the computer appears to be connected (but it doesn't work). Usually I can see lots of
networks around me, but they vanish from the list when I lose the connection (though my own stays).

I have tried restoring the computer to its original state (I bought it with Windows 8 and updated it to Windows 10), updating the networking drivers, followed all the steps on

this page. I have run the various diagnostic tools I've been made aware of on different homepages, too. Nothing seems to work at all.

Can anybody tell me what I can do to fix my connection.

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Computer: ASUS X550JX

OS: Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 8), 64 Bit.

Network Related: Card and drivers all come from Realtek.

 

unstable internet over wifi- just started after couple years with same

I've been using this wifi set up for a long time, years, really. all the sudden tonight 12/23/2018 it becomes unstable,

. causes mew to manually reestablish connection only to again drop it. any suggestions?

 

N97 mini Wifi connection unstable

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