I Lost My Internet Connection – What to Do
One second you are working, the next everything is offline, and the cause is usually close to home: the router lost its link to the provider, your device wandered out of Wi-Fi range, or a cable worked loose behind the desk.
Speedify is an app that runs your internet over Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular data, wired Ethernet, Starlink and other internet connections together, so work and calls continue while one of them is missing. First comes finding out what dropped your internet connection, then the fixes that bring it back on your own device, then how using Speedify stops the next drop-out from reaching you at all.
Speedify keeps you online when your connection keeps dropping.
When the internet keeps dropping, the cause is usually something you cannot fix: a weak signal, a congested access point, a link quietly losing packets. Speedify bonds your Wi-Fi with any second connection, often 4G/5G cellular, and reroutes around it in under a second.
Lost Internet Connection – Identify the Cause and Troubleshoot
Whenever this happens, you need a fix as soon as possible. To do so, you need to know what caused the issue in the first place. There are many things that can go wrong, causing you to lose the connection:
- it could be an issue on your ISPs side. A faulty router, modem or internet adapter.
- it could be a hardware or a software issue on your side.
- or simply – the issue could be network congestion.
It’s not always easy to pinpoint the exact cause. But here are some things you could try to troubleshoot the issue quickly:
- Try connecting a different device. If the Internet works on that, then the issue is with your device. Go to the next subsection for more details on how to fix that.
- If your second device also lost internet connection, then restart your router and/or modem. In most cases that will fix the issue.
- If you still don’t have any Internet connectivity, check your ISP’s status page and see if there’s anything wrong in your area.
- Finally, if nothing else works, call your ISP and ask for details.
How to Fix Lost Internet Connection on Your Device
Losing Internet connectivity only on one device? Here are some other steps you may want to try:
- Make sure that everything is plugged in if you are connected over a wire and restart your device.
- If you are connected through wireless networks, try to disconnect and reconnect to them. Often times your device gets stuck on a bad Wi-Fi network.
- You also need to make sure your adapter’s drivers are enabled and up to date. If you need help updating your driver you can follow this article.
Still not getting any working Internet on your device? Take a look at more advanced solutions from WikiHow and PC Mag.
After you solved the issue and got Internet connectivity back, you need to prevent this from happening in the future. That solution is Speedify, a channel bonding VPN with failover protection.
How to Fix and Prevent Lost Internet Connectivity
With its channel bonding technology, Speedify allows you to take advantage of all internet connections available to you. You can combine 2 or more connections at once for increased bandwidth and, more importantly, to prevent losing Internet connectivity.
Speedify ensures that if one connection gets lost, your traffic will seamlessly be transferred to one of the other working connections. This is ideal for streaming, online gaming and VoIP calls.
For example you can WiFi as a main connection and set the cellular connection from your smartphone as a backup with Speedify’s priorities setting. In this scenario, if you lose WiFi connectivity, Speedify will transfer your traffic over to the cellular connection without the need to stop what you are doing to reconnect. Once the WiFi connection becomes available again, Speedify will switch you back to it.
The combinations are endless and Speedify supports almost any device on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android or iOS. Speedify is the best solution to never have to deal with lost Internet Connection ever again!
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