Why does my router need re-setting all the time?

Question

laptop randomly loses network, I have to keep pulling the router plug & putting it back in. Drives me nuts. Any way to fix this?

Answer 1

Make sure it's positioned correctly first, that's the easiest thing to do and usually doesn't cost anything.  Put your wireless router as high up as you can and as far from electrical and metal things as you can, that'll give you the best coverage.  Try to put it in the middle of where you expect to be (usually the middle of the house).  If you have 2.4GHz cordless phones you may want to replace them with 5.8GHz, 900MHz, or the new DECT6.0 phones that won't cause interference.  Also, wireless video senders, or wireless cameras that run on 2.4GHz should be set to the farthest channel from your router (e.g. set video sender to 1 or A and put the router on channel 11).  Channels 1, 6, and 11 are preferable because they don't "overlap" with each other.

If you can't get it working well, call the manufacturer for tech support.

I had a Belkin router that did this and it turned out to be defective, I called tech support and, after some troubleshooting, they sent a new one for free.

In another case I helped someone who had this and it was just interference.

Answer 2

That happens to me too. Most of the time and I hate it when I need to configure the router again.

Try to check for updates and the firmware.