Weird wifi issue with Predator laptop

[Sourtrader]

I'm running a I7 Predator Helios laptop on windows 10 with a Qualcomm Athenos QCA61x4A wireless Network Adapter. My laptop works fine with other wireless networks and my router and modem have no issues with other devices. When I get connected on my network with my laptop it continues to work fine unless the wifi resets than I cannot connect again. The weird part is it connects only after I've let my laptop completely drain it's battery. I've tried resetting the network, updating drivers and disabling/enabling them but none of that works.

Edit: Power went off again and now the wifi is working on my laptop (on 2.4 ghz). Also before this happened I activated the 5ghz band on my router and my wifi worked just fine while the 2.4ghz was still not connecting to the router.

 

[TheLostSwede]

One guess is that it has nothing to do with the battery being drained, but rather DHCP lease times from the router, they might just happen to coincide with each other. You can try by assigning the laptop a static lease from the router, i.e. it's always given the same IP address by the router and see if that makes a difference.

 

[Sourtrader]

One guess is that it has nothing to do with the battery being drained, but rather DHCP lease times from the router, they might just happen to coincide with each other. You can try by assigning the laptop a static lease from the router, i.e. it's always given the same IP address by the router and see if that makes a difference.

Just to clarify my laptop will connect after it dies from the battery being completely drained. It seems to be like a hard reset that works.

 

[Bill_Bright]

When I get connected on my network with my laptop it continues to work fine unless the wifi resets than I cannot connect again.

What do you mean by the wifi "resets"? And does everyone get thrown off at that time?

How far away are you from the WAP (wireless access point - typically integrated with router)? Are there any barriers (walls, floors, ceilings, refrigerators, metal filing cabinets) between the WAP and the notebook? What if you connect via Ethernet?

I agree draining the battery should not be needed. Instead of letting it drain, have you tried shutting down the notebook and removing the battery for 30 seconds or so?

Most notebooks have a small, separate switch, or Fn Key combination to quickly turn off the notebook's wifi. You might try cycling through that.

 

[Sourtrader]

What do you mean by the wifi "resets"? And does everyone get thrown off at that time?

How far away are you from the WAP (wireless access point - typically integrated with router)? Are there any barriers (walls, floors, ceilings, refrigerators, metal filing cabinets) between the WAP and the notebook? What if you connect via Ethernet?

I agree draining the battery should not be needed. Instead of letting it drain, have you tried shutting down the notebook and removing the battery for 30 seconds or so?

By wifi reset I actually mean router/modem turning off from loss of power like a thunderstorm or whatever. I normally use my laptop in the same area and it shows full signal strength. I do have concrete walls between my laptop and router but it's a powerful router and it doesn't change even when I put the laptop next to it.
Also removing the battery and waiting for 30 seconds would probably work but I'm a little nervous taking apart my relatively new laptop and it seems a little more complicated than it should be :/

I agree draining the battery should not be needed. Instead of letting it drain, have you tried shutting down the notebook and removing the battery for 30 seconds or so?

Ok so I tried removing the battery and it's still giving me the same issues, maybe wait longer? I have no clue

What if you connect via Ethernet?

Connecting via Ethernet through the modem works fine

 

[Bill_Bright]

By wifi reset I actually mean router/modem turning off from loss of power like a thunderstorm or whatever.

That would make me think TheLostSwede's DHCP suggestion could be it. I live in Tornado Alley and I kept having DHCP issues with my computers whenever we had an extended power outage. In my case, all my computers suddenly forgot how to print to my networked printer, or how to access files on my NAS. I soon realized it was because my router was assigning different IP addresses to the printer and NAS every time power was restored. So I reserved IP addresses in my router for the printer and NAS and never had problems again.