Dieseljockey
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Over this weekend every time I pop onto You tube after a few minutes my hub router drops the connection. :evil: Anyone got any ideas why? :wha: Stay off YT and no problem.
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bobsbeer
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Not a Belkin router is it? My one kept doing that but not just specific sites. Sorted it via the software.
stevie1556
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My old Netgear kept doing that. Used to unplug it, leave it 30 secs then plug it back in and it was fine.
Dieseljockey
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Not looked at the make Bob..it's whatever BT use. Strange it's only the one site...
Yup..just press the reset and away we go....pain in the harris tho.
stevie1556 said:
Yup..just press the reset and away we go....pain in the harris tho.
bobsbeer
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Dieseljockey said:
It won't be a Belkin. Just the generic router. My way of fixing it was to uninstall the router software from my pc and connect to the router as an extra user. No problem since. I did used to have to keep resetting the router which worked but was a pain. But my problem wasn't specific to just one site. It seemed to do it randomly.
Frogfurlong
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Youtube is heavy traffic for the router, so if it is having trouble cooling it'll increase its load.
Add to that a nice warm room where it cant dissipate the heat as easy and it'll thermal cutout to save frying the chips....
mmmm fried chips...
where was I?.. Oh yeah, if you get the vacuum cleaner with the brush nozzle onto the cooling holes in the router it can decrease the amount of crud inside and increase the thermal efficiency... you could also stand it on a cooling fan.
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Add to that a nice warm room where it cant dissipate the heat as easy and it'll thermal cutout to save frying the chips....
mmmm fried chips...
where was I?.. Oh yeah, if you get the vacuum cleaner with the brush nozzle onto the cooling holes in the router it can decrease the amount of crud inside and increase the thermal efficiency... you could also stand it on a cooling fan.
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Dieseljockey
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Now that's got me thinking, as it's very close to the rad, like a foot away ....cheers Frog... :thumb:
I was just reading through the replies thinking exactly that. I had issues with my linksys router, where if it was left on for days on end it would eventually throw a wobbly when under high load.
Allowing it to cool, even for just a minute, would sort the issue for another few days.
Allowing it to cool, even for just a minute, would sort the issue for another few days.
Do BT throttle certain kinds of traffic at certain times? I've known people move ISPs over throttling.
Or, if it was the weekend, maybe loads of peeps on your bit of wire were online and the contention ratio was really bad leading to timeouts.
Or, if it was the weekend, maybe loads of peeps on your bit of wire were online and the contention ratio was really bad leading to timeouts.
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