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Since the 21H1 update you might start noticing connection drops since a new wlan autoconfig feature has been added: if windows can't ping home reliably, it will restart your nic.

Yep.

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I don't think the reason for this is malicious. Back in 2012-2018 many Windows laptops belonging to friends and relatives had frequent WiFi issues. The only reliable way to fix the issue was to restart the NIC.

RedHat's NetworkManager already does something pretty similar [1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Checking_con...

Link please? I run Windows for work, which includes connecting to industrial networks with no Internet connectivity. If this happens, it's going to be a nightmare.

Sorry for the delay.. I actually couldn't find any official docs on this feature but this thread covers the bases:

https://www.tenforums.com/network-sharing/178379-disable-wla...

And it appears it may be part of 20h2, not 21h1 update.

Damn, that's hostility on another level. Do you have a link to more reading on this?

Sorry for the delay.. I actually couldn't find any official docs on this feature but this thread covers the bases:

https://www.tenforums.com/network-sharing/178379-disable-wla...

And it appears it may be part of 20h2, not 21h1 update.

Thanks for the link! I'm searching for 'reboot' and 'restart' but I don't see anything mentioned about rebooting -- only a restart of the network service. Are you sure it actually reboots the PC?

No, it restarts the wlan interface, not the entire pc.

Whoops, I somehow read nic as pc! Thanks.

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