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It happens on my desktop randomly, the more i use the connection the more likely to happen (i.e. the moment when I load a new, playing a videogame with constant connection). The connection drops for a few (or many) seconds and then resumes on its own.
Symptoms
- Whenever this happens the internet connection stops (of course).
- Whenever this happens I can't ping my router (192.168.0.1) from my desktop computer (Request timed out).
- Whenever this happens I CAN ping my router from my laptop, laptop does not suffer from this problem, suggesting that the problem is with my desktop (maybe the wireless adapter?). EDIT: probably not the adapter, i connected a USB wireless adapter to my desktop and it still has the same issues. :(
- Signal strength is at -65dBm, however my laptop with the same signal strength presents no problems.
How do i go about troubleshooting this? Any ideas?
Hardware
Wireless adapter: TP-LINK TL-WDN4800
Router: Lynksis E900
Windows 8.1
Things I've already tried
- Resetting reset tcp/ip stacks with -netsh in CMD and flushing DNS to no avail.
Disabled WMM and even though the problem is still there, it feels smoother now. I'm surprised that the issue seems to be with the router and not with my computer. I could not find "Settings" nor ICMP on here: http://puu.sh/oAiSs/1b22b2d9f9.png, am i looking in the right place?
And lastly, given that the problem might be with the router then i might flash it into DD-WRT, I thought it wouldn't help because I thought the problem was with my PC but who knows.
@NetworkKingPing Oh and here's another bit of data, when getting 'Request timed out' on pinging the router from my desktop PC, I get really high latency from pinging the router from my laptop, it goes up to over 1000 sometimes, does this mean that the issue is with the router? – Jose – 2016-04-29T19:29:41.893