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Originally Posted by roger skillin
Ok i was having a problem almost identical to this where my connection would just drop if i downloaded anything at speed, it turned out it was just my ethernet card in my computer so i just stuck a cheapy one in it and it's been perfect since
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Interesting.
In my case, We live in a two story house with computers here and there so wireless was our first choice. We went thru three different makes of routers, two modems, and several USB wireless adapters, and yet this problem still occurred. During this time, we noticed that two of the computers that where directly wired to the router didn't lose their internet connect-ability even when the wireless computers did(a few times, all computers lost internet and the router had to be replugged). Still, that suggested it was a wireless-router problem so we wired the whole house and boxed all the wireless stuff in the garage.
Things went good for a few months(probably because I wasn't downloading a lot) but then recently I began downloading a lot of TV shows and stuff. The connection went down again this time all computers. This makes the fourth time the system went down with the new wired system and I'm pretty sure that its been my single computer downloading faster than 600 kB/sec that's been the culprit causing the router crashes all this time. Looking back, I see the crashes coincide with heavy downloading. The routers have acted like a car that's been driven too hard and has over heated.
I know its my downloading that's screwing with the routers but is it the speed of downloading, the number of connections(torrents use a lot) or what? What is max speed, max connections for average router?