networking - Having trouble connecting to home network

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2014-07
  • Ben

    Ok so my laptop has recently (in the past month) started having trouble connecting to the home network. It will intermittently connect and disconnect every time I log on to my laptop. It will last for the entire session, but next time I turn on my laptop I don't know if I'll have internet again.

    I have even tried working around this by using an Ethernet cable, but that's still just as bad.

    At first I thought it was the network card, but at no point did it ever stop picking up networks, just my own. It can't be the router either, because I am the only one in the house that has these connection issues (we have multiple PCs, consoles and mobile devices).

    Can anyone tell me what's going on?

    EDIT: I'm still using windows 7, it's a few years old, but I'm pretty sure all the drivers are up to date.

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  • Adam Harte

    On my home network I have one wireless Belkin router, a desktop PC and a laptop. My PC is plugged straight into the router. The laptop uses wireless.

    When ever the laptop downloads bittorrent, it will always lock up the network after an hour or so (not sure if it locks up the whole network, but definitly stop the PC from accessing the internet). Even if I shutdown the laptop the network will remain locked up. The only way to fix it is to restart the router, then everything is fine.

    What is the issue here? Is it to do with BitTorrents? or my Router? or what else?


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  • William Hilsum

    Bittorrent works by opening up many concurrent connections and quite a few routers (especially older ones) have problems trying to keep up with all the requests.

    You can try on the laptop to limit the total amount of concurrent connections, apart from that, replacing the router will be your best bet.

  • Suppressingfire

    You're probably overloading your router's resources (bittorrent opens up a whole bunch of connections). Try turning down the number of connections your bittorrent client is using, and use bittorrent on the desktop machine. There are plenty of bittorrent clients that will let you run on the desktop and control it from the laptop.

  • invert

    Check if there's a firmware update for your router, sometimes vendors release patches to fix these issues.