After successfully getting wifi to stay up, Microsoft kindly decide to force me to update to the dreaded WIndows 11 24H2. OK, it seemed to work well, but I was back to the wifi adaptor struggling to connect to the router, or else bouncing up and down. Seems the update didn’t carry forward the power options for the USB hubs, so had to stop Windows turning them off “to save power” again.
But I was still getting intermittent connection failures… Until it dawned on me that the update had also forced me back to “fast shutdown” (or whatever it’s called). A feature that sounds nice, but, in reality, only saves a matter of seconds for shutdown and boot times, and is a sort of hibernation state rather than clean shutdown. So, had to disable that again, and all seems well so far…
(It does seem odd that Fast Shutdown doesn’t actually do a proper shutdown, but Restart does!)
