Hard drive backup over WiFi kills the connection

I finally setup an older PC i had to do windows backups, it's an older HP, has 2x1tb hard drives and running windows 7.
Set it up to run a homegroup, and set it up so I could run a home server to store backups and a place for software executables, for the wife and i to share data easily, etc. I also have it setup so i can run a scheduled windows backup to a share on that drive.

I ran the backup from the main hard drive on my home server to the other drive, everything worked fine.
I ran the backup on my main laptop over wifi, every time the progress gets to the high 90%, the wifi signal drops, so it never grabs a full backup.
It still shows my home WiFi, so i go to connect to it. and never will connect until i reboot my laptop.
I've tried other free backup software online and it all does the same thing except at different points during the backup.

I have let it get the full first backup hard wired. Then i change some items and try the backup again to see if that would make a difference, same thing.

If i hard wire to the router, everything works just fine... I've googled and cannot come up with much on this, but i'm stumped!

Laptop is an ASUS X552E running windows 10.

I haven't dove into it too much, but any help would be lovely!

also, i wasn't sure where to post this, sorry if it's the wrong spot!

We had a dsl modem, router, wifi combo unit from Frontier internet that did this. It would lock-up, reboot, then hang when doing any pushing of the wifi. After tons and tons (days that turned into weeks) of troubleshooting, we just connected my girlfriend's laptop with a wire and did the backups and transfers that way.

We eventually moved and bought a new wifi router we could use instead of the ISP stuff and we haven't had any problems doing this over wifi. If you have access to another wifi device try that and see if it helps.

See above.. it is the router.

What is your current router?

Thanks for the replies!
Hilariously enough. It is a Frontier router...
Looks like i'll be doing a hard wire to grab the backups in this case. Not the end of the world though, i'll just have to remember to go in the utility room and hook up my laptop every few weeks.

You could always buy yourself a good router (and modem ?) and then return the one(s) to Frontier so you are not renting it/then

If you really want to keep the one from your ISP, then make them replace it with one that actually works properly.

I know some of the Netgears have had firmware released that corrects an issue with wifi being killed when it's heavily utilized. Not sure if the Frontier routers are based on those or not.

bigdogchris said:

I know some of the Netgears have had firmware released that corrects an issue with wifi being killed when it's heavily utilized. Not sure if the Frontier routers are based on those or not.

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They are, the Frontier version with the latest update was suppose to correct the issue....they're still garbage though. For the OP, I would suggest investing in your own router, the ones currently in use by Frontier aren't very good.

Yup, even our old frontier modem/router is a netgear. When we cancelled our service because we were moving, they told us not to return the device. That should explain a lot.

NoahB said:

I finally setup an older PC i had to do windows backups, it's an older HP, has 2x1tb hard drives and running windows 7.
Set it up to run a homegroup, and set it up so I could run a home server to store backups and a place for software executables, for the wife and i to share data easily, etc. I also have it setup so i can run a scheduled windows backup to a share on that drive.

I ran the backup from the main hard drive on my home server to the other drive, everything worked fine.
I ran the backup on my main laptop over wifi, every time the progress gets to the high 90%, the wifi signal drops, so it never grabs a full backup.
It still shows my home WiFi, so i go to connect to it. and never will connect until i reboot my laptop.
I've tried other free backup software online and it all does the same thing except at different points during the backup.

I have let it get the full first backup hard wired. Then i change some items and try the backup again to see if that would make a difference, same thing.

If i hard wire to the router, everything works just fine... I've googled and cannot come up with much on this, but i'm stumped!

Laptop is an ASUS X552E running windows 10.

I haven't dove into it too much, but any help would be lovely!

also, i wasn't sure where to post this, sorry if it's the wrong spot!

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Backups should not be done over wifi. I would go with a usb3 external if I had no ethernet available, before I relied on wifi for a backup.

Thanks for the replies everyone!

a new router is on the list of things one day to buy as well as a backup USB drive... But money isn't free flowing unfortunately. Had the PC sitting around and decided on a whim to get it setup to be safe as my wife said her computer is acting strange and it's about 6 years old at this point. But of course she doesn't want a new one... So i'm just making sure we're on a constant backup mostly for her.