Watching youtube, torrenting, and downloading kills internet connection on the machine

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Hi, I hope you guys can help me here.

I have TPLink WR845N model.

I have problems on 2 different machine.

1st machine:
Connected to ethernet cable
Whenever i watch youtube video, my ethernet connection dies (Cant connect or access anything except router). However WiFi works just fine.

Another machine have different problems. Whenever it start torrenting or downloading big files, internet dies. This machine is on Wifi

So far, all i'm doing is Restarting the router, however, whenever i'm watching youtube or torrenting something, the connection dies on each machine.

If you guys have any question regarding this question, please feel free to ask.

Any ideas? Thank you very much and have a nice day.
 
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Isokolon
50 is fine
Depending on how you got the torrent client set up
But you'd need to limit speeds, the number of active torrents and the number of connections used
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RealBeast

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It could be a number of issues. How fast is your ISP service plan?

If you have a low bandwidth connection then any high bandwidth applications like streaming video or opening a large number of connections (with what I will assume for discussion is legal torrenting) will overwhelm your connection speed to the ISP.

It could also be hardware related, so insure that you have the latest firmware for your region for the TPLink WR845N. If it is under warranty still you may want to get it replaced as it certainly could be the router itself.

And a third problem that you will have with wireless is that the WR845N has only 2.4GHz IIRC so there are only 3 non-overlapping channels and anyone around you in close proximity using anything on 2.4GHz (routers, wireless speakers, headphones, microwave ovens, etc.) can cause an unstable connection that your router may not be able to deal with.

You can try running the free version of inSSIDer on the machine with wireless to look at the surrounding networks by channel and strength to see if that is a problem and if some channels more usable sticking with the non overlapping channels 1, 6, and 11.
 
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trdpwr

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If i tell you i have 50 Mbps speed plan, would it change your opinion?

 
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I got 50Mbps plan. If using high bandwidth application affects, i usually downloading games and apps in Steam, and got up to 7-8 MBps download speed, but it didnt cut off my ethernet connection while doing so.

As in another machine. My torrenting speed rarely goes above 1.1 MBps.

Update: The problem only exists in 2 machine that i used, since my phone connection to router works just fine when other two were down because mentioned problem.
 
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captaincharisma

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nope, a 50MB package isn't enough to be doing all the tasks you're trying to do at once. if you want to continue using that much bandwidth and expect it to be trouble free you will have to upgrade to a 100MB or higher package

 
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