Intermitent connection to network devices

Hi, until recently I had been having no problems connecting to other devices on my network from my iMac, I have a couple of windows PCs with shared folders, a NAS and one of the windows PCs also runs a VNC server. All of these were working fine until I went away for the weekend, I don't know if my girlfriend has accidentally changed any of the network settings but when I came back the iMac was connecting to the wrong wireless network (a nearby unsecured network), I tried to get it to connect to my own network which uses WPA but I kept getting "invalid password" or "connection timeout" messages even after double checking the password. I gave up and decided to leave it till the morning but when I tried to connect again the next day it just worked however now I am getting intermittent connections to my local network devices. The connection to the router and the internet is constant but the are frequent periods of several minutes where I cannot access network shares or the VNC server. All the windows PCs on my network are constantly able to access these shares and the VNC server. What could have changed on the iMac to cause this?

I just attempted to measure the period that the network devices are available/not available for by pinging one of the network devices continuously and it seems that the devices are available for exactly 10min then not available for exactly 10min which seems very unusual. any ideas?

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