- Jan 18, 2011
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What's usually the culprit here?
The cable company automatically blames the router because my signal strength is very good with the modem. Well, that's a possible cause, but this router has been fine for a long time until recently. Additionally, this seems to almost always happen during peak usage hours like 5-9 PM in particular. Mid afternoon around 3PM as well but not near as much as the evening.
This happens regardless of what I'm doing. It's not torrents, or even heavy bandwidth use. Sometimes I'll just be browsing or something not bandwidth-intensive and it'll drop the connection. Unplugging the cable modem for a minute and then plugging it back in *always* fixes it.
I'm thinking maybe there's a signal problem at certain times or maybe there's just something borked on their end, but both of those seem unusual because when it's working right it's pretty damn fast. I get downloads at or above the advertised amount I'm paying for, 3MB/sec or more, when it's working right. Also, this basically never happens from midnight to 6AM.
I should add that this happens with more than one router, I've been using a Dynex wireless router but switched it out for an older Linksys just to see (I've had more issues with Linksys stuff in the past than anything else). When it happened in the past, maybe a year back, I tried directly connecting to one PC and it changed nothing. Eventually the problem just sort of went away for a while.
Is it possible that wifi interference or something with that could make the whole connection drop, even when no wifi devices are being used? The only things using wifi are a media player and a Kindle, and this happens without either of those present.
Realize this is a pretty broad description but maybe there's something I'm not aware of I could check out.
Edit: Also just realized I'm not posting this in the right forum. My bad.
The cable company automatically blames the router because my signal strength is very good with the modem. Well, that's a possible cause, but this router has been fine for a long time until recently. Additionally, this seems to almost always happen during peak usage hours like 5-9 PM in particular. Mid afternoon around 3PM as well but not near as much as the evening.
This happens regardless of what I'm doing. It's not torrents, or even heavy bandwidth use. Sometimes I'll just be browsing or something not bandwidth-intensive and it'll drop the connection. Unplugging the cable modem for a minute and then plugging it back in *always* fixes it.
I'm thinking maybe there's a signal problem at certain times or maybe there's just something borked on their end, but both of those seem unusual because when it's working right it's pretty damn fast. I get downloads at or above the advertised amount I'm paying for, 3MB/sec or more, when it's working right. Also, this basically never happens from midnight to 6AM.
I should add that this happens with more than one router, I've been using a Dynex wireless router but switched it out for an older Linksys just to see (I've had more issues with Linksys stuff in the past than anything else). When it happened in the past, maybe a year back, I tried directly connecting to one PC and it changed nothing. Eventually the problem just sort of went away for a while.
Is it possible that wifi interference or something with that could make the whole connection drop, even when no wifi devices are being used? The only things using wifi are a media player and a Kindle, and this happens without either of those present.
Realize this is a pretty broad description but maybe there's something I'm not aware of I could check out.
Edit: Also just realized I'm not posting this in the right forum. My bad.
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