Hey all, I found this forum while googling possible solutions to this problem, but with no luck. About a week ago, after getting a new ISP and router, my computer connected fine to the new wireless network (my old ISP was Verizon and we had wireless DSL and my PC had no problems). It went into sleep mode some time later and since then I've been having this nonstop 'unidentified network' problem that I've tried multiple things to fix but nothing has worked so far. It basically drops out the connection and my home network becomes unidentified and doesn't work, and then randomly reconnects and it happens over and over. Sometimes when it connects, it connects to 'NetworkProfile' which seems to be exactly the same as my router's connection so I don't know if that's like a duplicate connection that was made or not. I have no clue.
All I've pinpointed so far is that it's definitely a computer issue. My older laptop (also Windows 7), my iPhone, my dad's iPhone, and even his old Vista netbook can connect with no issues, but with my PC it'll be connected, then some time later it'll disconnect and say the network is unidentified and public. This happens repeatedly. It goes from this:
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To this:
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I also tried connecting to another network, a hotspot created by my iPhone, and it did the same thing, so it's definitely not my new wireless service. Might be a problem between my computer and wireless networks in general.
So I've tried many different things, and nothing has worked. This includes uninstalling and reinstalling my old network adapter, checking for drivers, resetting the IP stack, deleted Bonjour, many things that come up when you google the problem. I even got a new (not too expensive, thankfully) network adapter and it still occurs. It's irritating because this sounds like a very common issue with Windows 7 and even 8 looks like. Was hoping some people could help out and help me pinpoint the issue here because this has been driving me nuts for a long time. My last resort would be to reinstall Windows 7 or do a factory reset but apparently that doesn't fix the issue and knowing my luck, it'd be the same with me.
Thank you to anyone who takes their time to read this and help me.
All I've pinpointed so far is that it's definitely a computer issue. My older laptop (also Windows 7), my iPhone, my dad's iPhone, and even his old Vista netbook can connect with no issues, but with my PC it'll be connected, then some time later it'll disconnect and say the network is unidentified and public. This happens repeatedly. It goes from this:
To this:
I also tried connecting to another network, a hotspot created by my iPhone, and it did the same thing, so it's definitely not my new wireless service. Might be a problem between my computer and wireless networks in general.
So I've tried many different things, and nothing has worked. This includes uninstalling and reinstalling my old network adapter, checking for drivers, resetting the IP stack, deleted Bonjour, many things that come up when you google the problem. I even got a new (not too expensive, thankfully) network adapter and it still occurs. It's irritating because this sounds like a very common issue with Windows 7 and even 8 looks like. Was hoping some people could help out and help me pinpoint the issue here because this has been driving me nuts for a long time. My last resort would be to reinstall Windows 7 or do a factory reset but apparently that doesn't fix the issue and knowing my luck, it'd be the same with me.
Thank you to anyone who takes their time to read this and help me.