I again tried updating my drivers and doing a network reset but still found no solution. After setting up that router I still was having the same problems with the 2.4 GHz network as I was with the Nighthawk AX5400 but now I couldn't even find the 5 GHz network. I bought the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7350 AC2400 ( link). I eventually settled on buying a new router that didn't support 802.11ax at all.

I changed the router settings to not use the 802.11ax protocol but still the problem persisted. I did some research on the problem and tried almost every possible solution I found: install new drivers, do a network reset, run some commands I found on to reset some of the networking stuff (I really don't know what the commands were doing).Įventually I settled on the problem being that the Nighthawk AX5400 5 GHz network was using 802.11ax protocol and my ASUS adapter only supported up to 802.11ac. I lived like this for a little while but then the problem started happening every 1 to 2 hours. The only way I could get back online was by turning my WiFi adapter on and then off again. Within a couple hours of using the 5 GHz network though I noticed that I had lost internet entirely without windows saying it had disconnected from the network or it saying 'Connected, no internet'. I thought that was strange but didn't really care because I was still able to connect and use the 5 GHz WiFi network. I could get it to connect sometimes but it would just disconnect the second I tried to load a web page or anything. When I would select the network Windows would spin for a while and then say 'Can't connect to this network'. The first thing I noticed was that I was not able to connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi network at all. When I switched to the AX5400 I immediately knew something was wrong. At the start of this year I switched from a NETGEAR modem router combo ( link) to a NETGEAR Nighthawk RAX50S AX5400 ( link) because I was just borrowing the modem router combo from a friend and he wanted it back. The adapter worked great until around the start of this year. I had just build a new computer with the ASUS PCE-AC56 wifi adapter ( link) and that was that. So to fully describe my problem and the situation I'm in I'll need to start back in December of 2019.

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