Windows 10: Wifi settings disappear after I lose internet connection

I've had an issue the past few days when any time I lose my Wifi connection on my laptop because my internet went down, then the Wifi section disappears from the Network & Internet Connections Settings entirely. So when the internet is back up I can't reconnect on my laptop. A reboot fixes whatever the issue is and it just automatically connects to the Wifi again. Any ideas what could be causing this?I have an HP laptop running Windows 11 Home. I just bought this laptop a couple of months ago. 11th Gen IntelR CoreTM i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz. 16GB RAM. I don't know what other specs you mi

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Randomly losing internet connection on a wifi network

Is that ipv4 pool for DHCP? I usually set fixed IP addresses outside dynamic pool (so above .64 in your case)

Other solutions: like Superfly suggested, new wifi adapter (USB solutions in your case), and found one old HP thread... uninstalling HP hotkeys worked for someone - looks like app was messing with physical key...)

 

Randomly losing internet connection on a wifi network

The router is a Sagemcom B-Box 3 running the ISP's software. It does not have user-accessible logs but I can see what devices are currently connected. When the computer loses internet access, it still shows in the list of connected devices, as I would expect.

The available IPv4 pool is 192.168.1.2-63 and I statically assigned 192.168.1.63 for that last test.

The computer is an HP Elitebook 8460P with a Broadcom BCM43XX wifi adapter. The driver is the latest version.

 

Randomly losing internet connection on a wifi network

Hello forum,

Here's a strange wifi problem that I have with my computer: about every 5-20 minutes it loses access to the internet. I can still reach the local network. After disconnecting from the wifi network and reconnecting, I can reach the internet again for a couple of minutes.

DHCP is on auto, except that DNS set to a fixed address, another local machine. DNS does not seem to be the issue though. I cannot ping external IP addresses either.

The routing setup seems fine. I have compared the output of `route /print` when connected to the internet vs. when the connection is lost. They are identical and look correct. Same for `ipconfig`.

Other machines on the network do not have this problem, and this machine does not have it on other networks.

What could be the cause?