{"id":124,"date":"2014-06-27T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-06-27T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T22:06:33","slug":"dell-xps15-windows-8-1-wifi-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/2014\/06\/27\/dell-xps15-windows-8-1-wifi-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell XPS15 &#8211; Windows 8.1 WiFi Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have not had time to Linux on my Dell XPS 15 laptop and still have to suffer from Windows oddness that I do not know.<br \/>\nIt does not help that this is the first time that I use Windows 8.1 and some things aare unfamiliar and to me very unintuitive. Under Linux I know where to look. Under Windows  more than once in the last month did I have to resort to a reboot because things just stopped working or the machine went into slow motion mode and did not recover otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday just before going home I wanted to log back on to the the corporate WLAN  &#8220;WLAN-One&#8221;. Just before I was connected, but I shut-down already and when powering on the machine hung after the Windows log-in. Several minutes passed and at some point it logged my into my Windows profile.<\/p>\n<p>I could not log on to WLAN-One though. So tried corporate WLAN-Two. Nope.<br \/>\nReboot. Nope neither work. Tried  tethering to my tablet&#8217;s WLAN-tab. Nope.<br \/>\nShutdown. Waiting. Start up. Nope.<br \/>\nRemoved all connections (&#8220;forget&#8221;).Nope, none of the WLANs work.<\/p>\n<p>Then I noticed that stupid windows remembered the wrong details. When connecting to  WLAN-Two or WLAN-tab, ipconfig  \/all still showed connection information (IP, DNS, Gateway) for WLAN-One. These details always stayed the same once connected to any of the three.<\/p>\n<p>Played with <code>netsh<\/code> with lots of delete\/remove command. Rebooted. Still the same.<br \/>\nTried for a good part of an hour to no avail. Search the web, checked out help information nothing helped.<\/p>\n<p>Decided on a whim to restart the DHCP Clien service in the &#8220;services.msc&#8221; console.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stupid Windows.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes have similar pains with Linux, but I know where to look and what do fix because it easy to find once you understand the concept.<\/p>\n<p>I recently helped a Mac owner to resolve custom DNS issues, which wasn&#8217;t as easy since I am not a Mac user.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of my story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though computer usability came very far in the last decade(s) I and others are still hitting similar problems as 30 years ago. <\/li>\n<li>Generally wordprocessing, Visio, PowerPoint are still tedious to use<\/li>\n<li>Rebooting (or restarting things) solves most issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quite a few times I am having problems connecting to existing WiFi connections on my Dell XPS15 with Windows 8.1. Even though other devices can connect to the same WiFi switching between them does not work (&#8216;limited connectivity&#8217; aka no IP connectivity).<br \/>\nEven though rebooting did not help, restarting the DHCP client service did resolve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few times I am having problems connecting to existing WiFi connections on my Dell XPS15 with Windows 8.1. Even though other devices can connect to the same WiFi switching between them does not work (&#8216;limited connectivity&#8217; aka no IP connectivity).<br \/>\nEven though rebooting did not help, restarting the DHCP client service did resolve it.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/2014\/06\/27\/dell-xps15-windows-8-1-wifi-problems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,21],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-wifi-problems","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnm.at\/markus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}