Route: Verizon Fios' Actiontec MI424WR-GEN3I Router

Home PC: Dell M4800 Windows 8.1

Work PC: Dell OptiPlex 3020 Windows 7

Issue: RDP drops right after I enter password to log in from work to home PC

Hi,

    When I try to connect from my work to home network via RDP, the connection drops as soon as I enter my password.  I am able to establish a connection but somehow my home PC seems to lose wifi connectivity when I enter my username and password to log-in. 

    My home PC is a laptop which can already accept RDP connections; and I've done so within the same LAN but not externally.  I've configured my router to port forward all RDP (3389) to my home PC.  I know this "works" because when I enter my home IP address, I am able to establish a connection, enter a username and password, but the connection freezes on the "Welcome" screen on my home PC and just disconnects from the network. 

   When I try to ping it, I see it is offline and I have to call someone at home to log in so that it can be online again.

Any idea on what I am doing wrong?  Please let me know....thanks!

Robert

Ok, so I answered my own question. The issue was not in the router but a setting in my laptop's wifi.

Here's what I did:

I first set Windows to manage my wifi adapter; it was being managed by intel proset

I then deleted the wifi profiles using the command prompt or powershell by using the following commands: netsh wlan delete profile name="YOUR WIFI PROFILE HERE"

I then connected to my wireless network again and it worked.

It looks like the network availability was set to "Me Only" before. Doing the above steps automatically set the network availability to "All Users".  You can view these settings in Windows 8 by double-click your wif adapter settings -> wireless settings.  But I think the key is to make sure Windows manages your wifi adapter.

• Marked as answer by robrdz 2 hours 45 minutes ago
• Edited by robrdz 1 hour 12 minutes ago