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10 – No IP from DHCP
Updated: September 2, 2019 by Dinesh

If your Windows 10 desktop or laptop suddenly lost the network

connection and showing limited connectivity, here are the simple
steps to fix it. In this case, the Wi-Fi or Wired network can go offline
and not able to connect to the local network. It will impact the Internet
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and other network activities on your computer. These below steps For College?
show how to fix limited Wi-Fi connectivity issue in Windows 10
which is applicable for the wired network also.

If it shows limited connectivity, mostly the network adapter would not

have got an IP from the DHCP. If only one particular PC is facing this
issue on your network/home, then apparently nothing wrong with the
network setup or DHCP server, it is a problem on the particular
Windows 10 laptop or desktop. When I recently faced this similar issue
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following steps helped me to solve the problem.
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This problem is not specifically for the Wireless network adapter; it can
happen to your LAN wired network adapter too. It’s an issue with the
IP stack (IPv4 or IPv6 – based on which protocol you are using). There
are few solutions available on the Internet, but let me start with the
possible (which worked for me straight away) solution, then other
methods.

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fix it. Updating or re-installing the WiFi adapter driver will solve it most
of the time. But this limited connectivity issue in Windows 10/8.1 could
be due to the IP address issue. In this case, the network adapter will
not get an IP address; hence it will be getting APIPA address range,
something like 169.245.x.x, that means you are in trouble.

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The Solution for Limited Connectivity Wi-Fi on

Windows 10

As described earlier, this is due to IP address/IP stack problem which

can be resolved by resetting the TCP/IP stack to its default value.
TCP/IP is a protocol used in most of the computers (including Mac,
Linux, and Windows) and other network devices to make
communication in LAN or WAN.

Use NetShell utility (netsh.exe) command to perform the task.

1) Open the command prompt as Administrator. Search ‘cmd’ and

right-click on cmd then select ‘Run as administrator’ as below.

2) Type following commands –

netsh winsock reset catalog  (Reset WINSOCK entries to installation

defaults)
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log (Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation
defaults)
Source

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3) Reboot the computer.

The Problem:
One of the above reset commands removes all persistent static route
entries from your Windows 10 computer. I faced this issue and had to
add those static routes again by ‘route add’ command.

This will mostly solve the problem of a limited Wi-Fi connectivity issue
in Windows 10 or 8.1.

4) If you are still facing the problem and your Windows 10 or 8.1 can’t
connect to the Internet and other local network resources, continue
below steps.

The following few more netsh commands may fix the problem. Make
sure you are entering below commands in command prompt which
was opened as Administrator.

netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled

I’m sure one of the above commands may fix the issue or at least make
your Windows 10 network faster.

5) If your wired network is fine, but you are having trouble in the
wireless network only, then you can change the power options to wake
up the WiFi Adapter.

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Right-click on the WiFi adapter and select Properties.

Click on ‘Configure’.

On the ‘Power Management’ tab, uncheck the below option.

This will prevent Windows 10 to turn off the WiFi adapter when it goes
to sleep or hibernation mode. Because when the laptop resumes from
sleep, the WiFi adapter may not wake up and work properly. So,
avoiding this feature may help in having proper wireless network
connectivity in Windows 10.

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6) A discussion here mentioned that having a 3rd party antivirus and

personal firewall software such as BitDefender also can disturb the
network connectivity in Windows 10/8.1. So, if none of the above
solutions work for you and you have a dedicated Antivirus software
with firewall enabled, you can uninstall it or find a way to allow Internet
connectivity and IP requests in the firewall settings. It might help.

I hope one of the above methods will solve the limited WiFi
connectivity or not getting an IP address issue in Windows 10 and
Windows 8.1. Also, keep updating the Windows OS and drivers
(especially LAN and WiFi network adapters) from Windows update.
They will fix the issue permanently.

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ers
March 11, 2018 at 4:31 pm | Reply

netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled

very very help me usefulllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thx Authorr………………

Bachi

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April 12, 2018 at 11:55 am | Reply

Thank you… thank you… Thank you. You saved my day.

Breaking my head for the last couple of days. Finally after step
2 it started to work.

Frans
April 25, 2018 at 2:16 pm | Reply

Did not work for me.

Still have the NO INTERNET problem.

Singh
May 21, 2018 at 10:26 pm | Reply

I’ve come across the same issue with multiple Windows 10

computers. Some were connected to the LAN using Ethernet
and others trying to simply connect to their private home Wi-
Fi. In all cases, their computers failed to find the network and
would return an APIPA address of 169.254.x.x.

Running netsh winsock reset and net int ip reset in the

following order fixed the issue.

Troubleshoot any hardware or software related issues before

running these commands.

anonymous
May 31, 2018 at 2:05 pm | Reply

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Issue appears to be related to power saving. Trying turning off

fast startup!

Matt
June 8, 2018 at 8:13 pm | Reply

Nope still broke for me, this is the 2nd Laptop this week.
Neither Wired or Wireless adapters will pull a DHCP address. A
Static IP works fine on either one.

Fraser
June 26, 2018 at 1:39 pm | Reply

Reinstalling the network adaptor should get you working again

then make sure you have you have KB 3206632 installed

“Addressed a service crash in CDPSVC that in some situations

could lead to the machine not being able to acquire an IP
address.”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4004227/windows-
10-update-kb3206632

Mike Kazemian
July 8, 2018 at 3:13 pm | Reply

Hi Dinesh,
Resetting the Windsock entries, and ipv4 stack in windows 10
did it for me. (Thanks)
But still do not know what caused it.
What was also interesting was that with APIPA address reange

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some URLs were accessible, while others were not.

If you can shed some light into this matter it would be highly
appreciated.

Gord
August 12, 2018 at 7:21 pm | Reply

Windows 10 Pro, version 1803 with all the latest updates, used
the following

netsh winsock reset catalog (Reset WINSOCK entries to

installation defaults)
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log (Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to
installation defaults)

Worked for me,

Thank-you very much ��

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