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    Solved! Windows 10 Laptop can't access internet even though it is connected to wifi and phone and desktop can surf the web just fine

    It is fixed. I just need to go to settings to start a automatic troubleshooting of any potential hardware problems and it ended up that some drivers needed to be updated (I guess the outage somehow messed with this, no clue how that makes sense) and once I restarted the computer the internet was...
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    Solved! Windows 10 Laptop can't access internet even though it is connected to wifi and phone and desktop can surf the web just fine

    I saw your external wi-fi card suggestion and I think that may be something that could solve this issue (at least I'm hoping it can). It's definitely worth a try. I also need to try to ethernet connect the other laptop since that one does have an Ethernet port and mine does not. I'm sure that...
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    Solved! Windows 10 Laptop can't access internet even though it is connected to wifi and phone and desktop can surf the web just fine

    Thank you for the quick response! I did it, but it is still not accessing the internet. It connects to the wifi, but zero Mbits per second are shown when I look at the "Network" window in "Task Manager." The other Windows 10 Laptop is showing maybe 0.1 Mbits per second, so it can access the...
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    Solved! Windows 10 Laptop can't access internet even though it is connected to wifi and phone and desktop can surf the web just fine

    So long story short, a random power outage in the neighborhood happened for a minute and when power went back on, the internet was down and out (very unsurprising since this isn't the first time this exact thing has happened). Here is the problem: The ISP company told me they were aware of an...