Windows 10: Wifi loses connection every few hours (tested on 2 diff wifi adapters)

I've had experience this problem for a while now on my newly built windows 10 rig. Every few hours, my Wifi simply stops working; the connection is lost. Sometimes it reconnects after a minute or so. Most of the time, I would need to manually disable/enable the wifi adapter in my Network Settings to get it back up again.

It happened with a relatively expensive adapter that I bought not to long ago - Netgear A6210 USB 3.0 dual-band wifi adapter. I found a thread about this issue here. I've not been able to resolve it with any of the tips provided (including downloading a generic 3rd party Mediatek driver). I've used this same adapter without this problem on my older Win7 machine. I thought maybe this adapter "went bad".

So I tried to replace this adapter with an older Wifi adapter made by Rosewill, using older Rosewill drivers. The same issue occurs. (Again, this Rosewill adapter worked perfectly in my Win7 system) So I have a hunch the problem is Windows 10 itself. Does it not place nicely with existing or older wifi adapters on the market? Would I need to buy a new adapter specifically certified for Windows 10?

Anyone have any insights on this would be greatly appreciated.

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wifi connection

After my laptop has been on a while few hours I lose internet connection from my built in adapter. I can see wi fi connections but I get error message can not connect to this network. yet when I connect via external usb wifi adapter no problems. now mind
you the internal wifi works again after restart but who wants to do that every time you lose connection.

Manufacturer: Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.

Description: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter

Driver version: 3.0.2.201

Physical address (MAC): ?DC-85-DE-6E-2A-3F

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Windows 10 WiFi Internet Connection is Getting Disconnected frequently

I just have a major update on Windows 10 last week Dec 2015 and has problem with frequent internet disconnection problem (every few hours) with my Lenovo PC and it’s really annoying. My WiFi is shown as connected, however internet
is not working.

I googled around and followed some of the advice such as:

1 Goto Device Manager, unclick the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" in power management.

2 Update the wireless network adapter driver

3 Disable other network adapters, except the wireless adapter that I'm using

4 Resetting TCP/IP auto-tuning using command prompt:

netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled

However, the problem remain unsolved i.e. every few 2 or 3 hours my wifi will show that it is still connected to wireless adapter, but there is no internet connection. The only "solution" is to reset my wireless adapter viz. switch
it off & then switch on again. Doing this every few hours is troublesome and annoying.

Your help and advice is very much appreciated. TQ

 

Have you turned off Power Management in device Manager? Go to device Manager/ network adapters/Wireless network device/right click properties/ Power management tab/ uncheck everything.

 

Just tried this... no dice =(

Still the same old pattern of disconnects every few hours