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FrankKrieger

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Hello.
I'm having a bit of a problem with my internet connection, when I'm downloading large files (We're talking 20 plus GBs here) someties my internet stops working, even though it shows I'm still connected to it, and the rest of the computers in the house can access it too.

Could anyone provide some help with this?
 
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imperialxgx
1. Your network driver crashes. I would recommend disconnecting from the internet, going into device manager and uninstall the driver (DO NOT REMOVE FILES) then restart your computer and the driver will reinstall.

2. Your IP address may be expired causing network issues. Go into the cmd console and run IPCONFIG/RELEASE + IPCONFIG/RENEW

3. if you connected via WiFi try hardwired connection and visa versa. Your wlan card may be bad or you may have a bad Ethernet adapter.
Depending on if its PCI connected or integrated the solution would be just to get a new wlan card in this case
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1. Your network driver crashes. I would recommend disconnecting from the internet, going into device manager and uninstall the driver (DO NOT REMOVE FILES) then restart your computer and the driver will reinstall.

2. Your IP address may be expired causing network issues. Go into the cmd console and run IPCONFIG/RELEASE + IPCONFIG/RENEW

3. if you connected via WiFi try hardwired connection and visa versa. Your wlan card may be bad or you may have a bad Ethernet adapter.
Depending on if its PCI connected or integrated the solution would be just to get a new wlan card in this case
 
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FrankKrieger

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I forgot to mention that this only started happening after installing a new HDD, could this have something to do with it?
 
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If you formatted the new drive as FAT32 and are downloading to it, the max file size supported is 4 GB. So your 20+ GB file would stop downloading once it hit 4 GB. Format it as NTFS or (if it's an external drive you'll be sharing with Macs or Linux) exFAT.
 
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FrankKrieger

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It's already formatted as NTFS, but I didn't knew that, so thanks for the information anyhow.
 
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