One computer on home network keeps dropping off

[Emrys]

7. I replied to your dupe question in the Lounge, but I'll add it here

as if I'm pointing in the right direction, someone here may be able to help you better than I can.

Had a similar problem with our home network.

If I'm on the right track, the remedy probably won't be the same for you, but it may give you an avenue for exploration.

Wifi routers will sometimes change channels if they detect too much inteference on a specific channel. They can be set to do this automatically so you don't notice - until a problem like mine (and maybe yours) turns up.

In our case, the laptop with dropped connection problems was old and its wireless adapter didn't support one of the channels available on our newer laptop that was one our wifi sometimes skipped to, so it behaved as you're describing.

I just set the wifi to a fixed channel both laptops could cope with - problem solved.

I was working on old Windows XP machines so I can't walk you through how to check and change the channel settings in Windows 10 (at the laptop end, you may have manufacturer-specific software taking care of that side of things anyway).