Weekend wireless woes

aloser

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Howdy!

I have an Aukey AC1200 PCIe wireless adapter that I bought last April, a D-Link AC750 router that I bought "earlier" (purchased before April, but didn't actually install until then) and just got Charter (Spectrum) internet again last month.

Everything's been working fine until over the weekend; Thursday already before bed I noticed things acting up, but didn't think much of it until it continued again Friday (normally these issues work themselves out overnight). However, Friday I noticed things started being more steady and have continued thusly as well - it's sporadic, so that's part of what brings me here. Anyway, enough rambling: my desktop internet connection is very touch-and-go, sometimes it works flawlessly and other times it's failing miserably. My laptop and other devices are seemingly fine; I'm not losing the connection simultaneously necessarily; but even on the rare occasions when everything cuts out, the rest all comes right back - but my desktop stays off. Running any diagnostics is a futile effort; Windows (Oh yeah, I should probably also mention I'm running Win 8.1) either "can't detect any issues" or blames "your broadband connection" - again, despite the other devices working flawlessly, so I'm not convinced it's my router or modem (which I've restarted, and only seems to interrupt what my other devices are doing instead of solving whatever the actual issue is with my desktop). And Charter's "my account" troubleshooting area similarly says "everything looks fine" on their end as well. I can't imagine it's my neighbors (Charter throttling it) because, again, if it truly is an actual outage of any sort all my other devices are pretty oblivious to it.

I'm pretty confident in my choice, but you know that franticness where sometimes you overlook the most obvious answer right in front of you? My TL;DR question is if I'm correct (or missing anything else) in working with Aukey to replace my adapter? Things have been fine for the past 2 hours again now thus far, but the previous 2 or more were nothing but constant "no internet connection" errors. And history is showing that tomorrow will be the same thing - it'll start out fine, but then decide to conk out at some point and the cycle will begin again.

Thanks!
 

DAPUNISHER

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I would switch to a better brand. Some of the reviews complain about needing to flush the DNS cache all the time, going belly up within weeks to months, and having weak 5GHz performance. Which, combined with your experiences, is enough to conclude that it's time to ditch it and try Asus, TPLink, etc.
 

Charlie22911

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I've had 3 separate DLink routers in the last 10 years, including a high end one in 2012 or thereabouts. They were all crap and failed on me, so I'd second the motion for a new device. I have a Netgear router in access point mode and two 8 port Netgear managed switches that I've been using for a few years now with no issues.
Also, nice alliteration.
 

aloser

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I have a Tenda AC1200 router on order; seems to have much better reviews than the others I was looking at (Belkin or even Linksys, which have always been consistently solid for me).

Guess we'll see what happens next - thanks again guys!
 

VirtualLarry

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I have some Aukey AC1750 devices, and I'm mixed about their reliability. I have a wired gigabit LAN here, but I have each PC equipped with an AC wifi dongle, just for backup purposes.

Sometime last year, I bought some Aukey AC1750 dongles, to replace the PremierTek AC1200 dongles that I had previously.

The PremierTek dongles rarely, if ever, gave me any problems.

The Aukey dongles, someetimes, they come up as "not detected", after running fine for a while (not even in use, just plugged into the USB3.0 port - they error and stop being detected).

Some of that could be due to my cheap Orico 10-port USB3.0 powered hubs, as sometimes all of my USB devices, disappear and re-appear.

And, I think, some could be due to the Aukey.

They are a somewhat cheaper device. I paid around $12 or $15 each for mine, I think.

The PremierTek units were $16-20, from their online store on ebay.
 
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