Router slow/cutting out

jarrod989

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Lately ive been having an issue where my router cuts out for about 5 seconds to minute. It started about a month ago up until then it was fine. It only happened once every couple hours but was still annoying. It slowly became more frequent until it was happening a couple times an hour, only cutting out for for a couple seconds, enough to kick me from games and drop skype calls. it also seemed to happen mostly in the evenings when my parents and sister where home (3 extra mobile devices connected) and rarely happened during the day. Now after returning from a 4 day holiday the internet has slowed (it wasnt slow before, just cutting out). like super slow and the internet cuts out every 5 minutes with only one device. it also automatically loses connections to online games after like 10 seconds of game play, where before it just froze for a bit (internet is still connected).

Currently 2 pc's are on the network, a laptop and 4 cell phones. I have no nearby wireless networks to interfere with and the router stays on during these cuts. I also had a longer cut in the internet today (5 minutes long) where the modem had no send receive. all internet cuts out including wi-fi. Router is a dlink n750
 

Urumiko

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Dec 28, 2013
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so just to be clear... normally I would wonder if the internet sync... dsl? is dropping?

but also if the wifi itself is dropping? can you still ping your default gateway?


if both were definatley dropping a the same time, i would think this is an issue with either the router itself or power to it.