I restarting the wireless nic in devices and at the same time I ran a 20 metre network cable from my PC (connected to a broken onboard network device) to my wireless router. And now the wireless has gone from disconnecting every few minutes to not having disconnected in over an hour!
There are three possible theories I've made for why it's now working and I wanted to know which was the most likely.
1) The network cable acts as an earth bridge between the wireless NIC in my PC and the wireless router thus boosting the signal.
2) Disabling and re-enabling the NIC fixed the problem.
3) The wireless signal was perpetuating a magnetic field built up in the 20 metre network cable (same one I used to connect my pc to the router) as it was coiled up akin to a Tesla Coil effect. And when this magnetic field reached a certain strength it caused either some sort of feedback loop or mass wireless signal disruption causing the wireless nic to disconnect and the magnetic field to dissipate then repeat when the wireless NIC re-connected.
Curiously when the wireless was disconnecting it wasn't because of loss of signal but rather a sudden disconnection, which leads me to believe this is the most likely theory to be true.
Update: I've noticed when theres very little traffic being sent/received it still seems to disconnect randomly. Which kind of invalidates all my theories
There are three possible theories I've made for why it's now working and I wanted to know which was the most likely.
1) The network cable acts as an earth bridge between the wireless NIC in my PC and the wireless router thus boosting the signal.
2) Disabling and re-enabling the NIC fixed the problem.
3) The wireless signal was perpetuating a magnetic field built up in the 20 metre network cable (same one I used to connect my pc to the router) as it was coiled up akin to a Tesla Coil effect. And when this magnetic field reached a certain strength it caused either some sort of feedback loop or mass wireless signal disruption causing the wireless nic to disconnect and the magnetic field to dissipate then repeat when the wireless NIC re-connected.
Curiously when the wireless was disconnecting it wasn't because of loss of signal but rather a sudden disconnection, which leads me to believe this is the most likely theory to be true.
Update: I've noticed when theres very little traffic being sent/received it still seems to disconnect randomly. Which kind of invalidates all my theories
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