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I am intermittently losing my internet connection. It is mostly my wireless connection, but I sometimes find my wired connection gone too. Comcast has done their thing as far as refreshing the modem. I use Airport Extremes in bridge mode to provide Wi-Fi to my house. I will run Speedtest on my iPhone or iPad, and I see a network connection issue. Then I can go to my wired desktop, run Speedtest and it runs fine. I then immediately run Speedtest on my iPhone and its OK. Sometimes when I don't get the network connection issue message on my iPhone, I get a Latency test failed message.
Can my wired PC cause me to lose connection wirelessly, or can being active on the desktop start my wireless to work again? I am looking for places to troubleshoot the issue. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Can my wired PC cause me to lose connection wirelessly, or can being active on the desktop start my wireless to work again? I am looking for places to troubleshoot the issue. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
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I'm a bit confused. You said that the wired connections fail as well. So how does this plan address the wired connections?
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I have only seen one failure of the wired connection. Since I removed the Airport Extreme in bridge mode, I have not experienced any problems. I still have not reconnected this AE with a wired connection to see if I have an issue with the AE or the powerline adapter.
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Thanks to everyone for their help.
@sxlowry - You are very welcome and I was happy to help.
I forgot to mention that the two Airport Extremes are connected to each other via a Netgear powerline adapter. In case I have a problem with the AE (3rd gen which is in bridge mode) or the powerline adapter, I have powered off this AE. I will see if I have any more problems with this configuration. If I don't see any problems tomorrow, I will reconnect the AE (3rd gen) directly with an Ethernet cable to the primary AE (5th gen). If the problems stay away, I know it is the powerline adapter that has gone bad.
Concerning the signal going to the modem, last week Comcast ran a new outside cable to the house and then connected it to a "new" modem and checked the signal strength. When I am connected, I get 50-60 mbps, wired.