Hosted Network - Dropping Connection Every 30 Seconds - 1min (disappears from list of networks, then comes back).

Question

Hey guys - quick rundown, I use netsh wlan start hosted network in CMD as Admin to run my Hosted Network. I then turn on my ExpressVPN & Share my connection to the Hosted Network - this way allows me to play on NA servers late at night in the EU when ours are dead. Everything has been completely fine for months - until the passed week.

My issue now seems to have come after a recent windows update which stopped internet browsing from working while a hosted network was active - I have deleted that update but a new issue has persisted. My VPN & Hosted Network both have internet access and both are working, the issue I am having is that the connection doesn't last long at all. (30 seconds - 1min, drops and then unfindable on my console/phone, then it comes back, and repeat over and over).

I'm here today after asking on some other microsoft forum and he suggested I ask here, I don't know exactly what my issue is but I'd be willing to try anything related to firewall, registry or anything else.

I have fully restored my pc around 10 hours ago, and all my drivers and everything related are up to date. (those that came with the restore - I don't know if i need any additional drivers)?

One issue I seem to have which I don't know if it is part of the cause is 'netsh wlan show profiles' - nothing comes up when I do this, and before my WiFi card would show up because when I set up it months ago I ran this cmd netsh wlan set profileparameter name="WLAN-PROFILE-NAME" connectionmode=manual to stop my card from searching for wireless signals and just used it as my shared network only, I have ethernet for everything else. (I have tried the services method on wlan autoconfig - seems to turn my net off entire rather than just the searching for signals)?

Any ideas you guys can think of that I could try, or anybody encountered the same issues?

I'll be heading to bed now as I've been at it for hours so if any responses I'll try them tomorrow and get back to you. (I'll pray for a fix) :)

Answer 1

Hi there,

There has been a recent update that has been breaking the internet in Hosted networks and it seems this update has affected you. But as you have reset the PC and removed the updates you must not face this issue.

Make a check that it is not any hardware issue with the router or your device. Meanwhile, try to capture the background process that might help in getting the right troubleshooting methods.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry, and process/thread activity. You can get the tool from here https:// learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. You can get the tool from here https:// learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

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