#Wifi stuck on identifying windows 10 driver#

(I read somewhere that with a similar problem someone had turned the energy efficient ethernet setting to Off too) The troubleshooting was not really any help - for the moments it was connected it would report there were no problems and then when disconnected it would report 'Windows could not automatically detect this networks proxy settings'ДЎ - Open Device Manager (search for 'Device Manager') - using windows 8 search, slowy scroll from top right hand corner of screen.ДЈ - Right click on the Network Adapter and select PropertiesД¦ - Change from Auto Negotiation to 10Mbps Half Duplex When viewing 'Network connections' page it reported ' Identifying ' then ' Network 2 ' then ' the network cable is unplugged ' ' Identifying ' then ' Private network ' then it drops out again to ' You are not currently connected to any networks ' Via the Control Panel / Network and Sharing Centre, under 'view you active networks' it was stuck in a loop of. Web pages would be available - then the connection would be lost - a minite later available again.

#Wifi stuck on identifying windows 10 driver#

(The network driver is a standard Realtek family controller)

How we seemed to solved the problem is below in hope that it might prevent anyone else spending a few hours puzzling it out. We had a strange problem where a Windows 8 machine was constantly going on and off line in a repetitive loop after the upgrade to BTInfinity and installation of a BT Home Hub 5.