My wireless internet connection keeps crashing and i have to wait a few minutes for it to repair itself?

Question

My ISP is netgear, this has been happening for the past 5 days

Answer 1

This problem is very common if you use peer-to-peer type programs with a router instead of being directly connected to your computer. Essentially, the router can't handle the traffic being generated by the peer-to-peer software.

Peer-to-peer software includes software such as limewire, bearshare, utorrent, kazaa, azureus, bitcomet, etc. There are a large number of them. Any program where you connect to "many other people" to get your file is probably a peer-to-peer program.

One way to test if this is your problem is to completely shut down your p2p (peer-to-peer) programs. Make sure they are out of memory and not just sitting in the system tray.If the connection stays up, your problem is probably p2p.

The problem can often be solved inside your p2p programs. Just about all of them support advanced functionality that can help correct for the router. Generally this happens because some routers can only handle 256 "connections". Usually, if you reduce it to say 100 or 150, it will correct your problem. It *may* sack your performance a bit, but your only other option is to hook the modem directly to your computer.

Another common source of this problem with p2p is if you set your upload too high. Upload should be set to no more than 80% of your upstream bandwidth. If you are not sure if your upload is set too high, set it to 1 to test. If the problem stops, this was the problem. The problem with setting your upload that low though is that most programs will not give you a good download if your upload is too low, so you'll want to slowly slide it up to find out what the tolerance on your connection is.

Finally, there is a chance that someone who is behind your router may also be causing the problem. If anyone else uses a computer that uses your internet connection, find out what htey are using, they may be causing it with much of the same things I just described that you could be doing.

Go with that. Good luck.

Just my two Canadian Beavers.

Answer 2

Is your ISP Netgear, or is your Router Netgear? I didn't know Netgear was also an ISP Provider. Anyway, I have a similar problem only I discovered I had a problem with my encryption not being compatible with my software firewall. Once I removed the firewall from my Panda Internet Security Suite the problem resolved. I have a good firewall in my Belkin Router, so I am not at any risk removing the Panda Firewall. Some software Internet security suites are not compatible with WPA encryption. I would have had to use WEP if I kept the firewall with Panda. Now Panda is compatible so I can use the firewall.

We used Netgear Router before we purchased the Belkin hardware and we had to reset the Router a few times a week. Go to the Router and unplug it, wait thirty seconds, plug back in, go and reboot your computer and see if this resolves the problem. If not contact Netgear customer service and get help from one of their techs. Good luck and have a nice day.

Answer 3

check for trojan's & keyloggers &

TO STOP ALL THAT FROM GOING ON your network

you do make sure you call your (isp) or this will happen
is your pc still slow & your internet you have done a full system scan
with your anit virus /anti spyware you even defragmenter your hard drive
done a scan disk but your pc is still slow and your internet is not as good
then you need to check your router it dont mater what router you have

people in the vicinity is on your network

you call your (isp)
GET THIS SET TO DISABLED

(GAMES & APPLICATION SHARING )
it dont matter what router you have you need to get
(GAMES & APPLICATION SHARING ) set to disable

is your router safe?
you need to call your (isp) server
they have to get you in to your router home page
then from there ..copy & paste the router home page
into a notepad then save that to a back up cd

now from there they have to take you to the part
where (GAMES & APPLICATION SHARING ) is
then you click on ( GAMES & APPLICATION SHARING) icon
then at the top of the page on the right your see
configure.. you click on configure
then you .. UN-TICK .. the box ( GAMES & APPLICATION SHARING)
that is ticked there ...
then you click look down the page your see
<<<
if you have a wireless router
and then ask them where you set up a wpa-security key dont use a 128bit wep key ask to use a wpa- security that is your router security key and you pick the wpa-security key not your (isp)server . just ask them where you set one up they will say use a wep-key ..ignore them you say your going to use a wpa.key and want to know how to set one up and remember you pick the wpa-key not your (isp)server or they will use your network

now you close off the page
and clean out your internet address bar

Answer 4

My pc used to do a similar subject. it may lose the internet connection each jiffy, besides the certainty that it may locate the internet. right this is how I fixed it. I un-checked the field on the section the place you tell it to hook up with the internet returned. i'm uncertain what the field replaced into, yet i've got self assurance I un-checked it. regardless of if it is un-checked, the verify it. it is on the 1st component to the situation the place you tell your computing gadget to connect. you do no longer replace pages. basically seek for the field and un-verify it.