What decade was that?
We use the Nest WIFI and no issues.
DHCP
Always keep your DHCP range separate from your hard-coded IPs.
That could be many things, although some on board software is likely.GORDON wrote: What's strange is that my kid's PC has a mind of its own, when it comes to IPs. His machines have been running fine for years, but not recently. Every two months or so Win10 completely forgets how to pull an IP from the router. My range is the standard 192.169.whatever.... and suddenly that machine wants to be 69.something.something.whatever. I have to go into TCP settings and hard-assign the IP, DNS, and subnet. It's all jacked. DHCP settings are still "let the router assign the IP," but it ends up assigned something weird and can't connect to the internet at all until I fix it.
Thus, scratch and reload to start. If it continues, then yes, it's hardware.
I went with: It's a minor inconvenience right now, so just live with it. Start shopping for a new laptop to replace this 3+ year old one because reloading is less fun than getting a new one.