{"id":191396,"date":"2016-12-11T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=191396"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:12:38","slug":"windows-10-bug-causes-wi-fi-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/191396-windows-10-bug-causes-wi-fi-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 bug causes Wi-Fi problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Windows 10 PCs with the Anniversary Update is causing sudden drops in\u00a0Wi-Fi connections, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3148845\/microsoft-windows\/windows-10-anniversary-update-bug-drops-wi-fi-connections.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>InfoWorld<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Network Diagnostics troubleshooter reportedly states that &#8220;Wi-Fi doesn&#8217;t have a valid IP configuration&#8221; while dropping all connections.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it is aware of the reported problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recommend customers restart their PCs, and if needed, visit [<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/10741\/windows-10-fix-network-connection-issues\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft Support<\/strong><\/a>].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that &#8220;disconnect results when a machine performs a fast startup, setting the machine&#8217;s IP address to 169.x.x.x&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/191068-windows-10-vr-minimum-pc-requirements-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 VR \u2013 minimum PC requirements revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Windows 10 PCs with the Anniversary Update is causing sudden drops in Wi-Fi connections, according to a report by InfoWorld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[749,26970],"class_list":["post-191396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-wi-fi","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191398,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191396\/revisions\/191398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}