Trouble connecting to PC on home network with usb wifi adapter..

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Ok, the title is a bit vague, but the onboard ethernet on the motherboard died a few days ago so I bought a cheap Pcie 1x card (RTL8111C) off amazon to use in one of the expansion slots. However, no matter which slot I tried, the PC simply would not recognise any new hardware.

It's a pretty old motherboard (Asus Sabertooth X58) but would imagine that a Pcie ethernet card should work. I made sure to disable the faulty onboard ethernet in the bios as well.

Anyway, I decided to cut my losses and just get a usb wifi adapter. This works flawlessly apart from the fact that I can not get access to the PC over the network.

I have enabled network discovery as well as file sharing and also disabled password protected sharing. I mean, everything I normally do, but browsing the network via Kodi on fire tv it just keeps on giving a "connection timed out" error.

Sadly, I don't have a second PC to troubleshoot a windows to windows connection..

The PC is running Windows 10 64bit with all the latest updates.

Is there anything I am missing?
 
Well, I figured it out! It was the latest Windows update that prevented the PC from being found on the network. Rolled back to 1607 and everything is fine now.
 
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