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I have Ubuntu 14.04 and we have Wifi in the house. Lately (every 2 days), my laptop fails to connect. The Wifi sign loads forever (you know the white lines going bottom-up recursively).

The issue is resolved with restarting the rooter. However, this causes problems to the other people that are successfully connected to internet (father and brother) via Windows OSes and the telephone which needs a non-negligible time to recover.

So, I was wondering if there is something I could do in person to try to recover, maybe resetting something, like my DNS configuration or something? I have no idea, do you? :)

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The first thing to try in case of a failing network connection that does not lie outside the system is to restart the Network Manager service.

On pre-systemd machines (like 14.04) the command is sudo service NetworkManager restart.

On systemd machines you would do either systemctl restart NetworkManager or systemctl restart network-manager.

Jos
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