Router kicking me off/Netbook refusing connection every minute; severely annoying
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Okay, here's the basics.
Router is Linksys E3000.
Netbook is an Asus Eee PC.
Specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit
Intel Atom N550, 1.5 GHz
1 GB DDR3 RAM
ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1015PE Motherboard
In depth issue:
Either my router is booting me off, or my network card is starting to kick the bucket.
What happens is, every minute or so, new connections will be not made. But constant connections, like the ticker or messengers don't seem to be effected. But if I try to sign in with a messenger while this is happening, it will not make the connection because it's trying to make a new connection. Whenever this happens, Windows' troubleshooter for this kinda thing can't figure out what's wrong at all.
Using Chrome but it shouldn't matter because I tested with Firefox and it happens there as well.
The strange thing is that no other computers are effected by this problem, just this one.
And to fix it, I have to reconnect to the router entirely.
I would have reinstalled network card drivers but I for the life of me couldn't find the right ones, mostly because I don't know what model it is.
Just tell me if you need anymore info.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that your router's Maximum Concurrent Connections limit is getting hit (although normally it'll just reboot, so hence the stab). If you've got anyone else using the connection, boot them off for a little while, reboot the router, and see if the problem persists. Are you using anything P2P (bittorrent etc)?
The only things connected to the router anymore are my netbook, desktop and PS3. Nothing else. Before we moved, it was being used by way more then that, because of my brother, and it didn't have issues.
Occasionally my mom and dad's laptops are but they only browse simple websites.
Also, no I am not.
That's really strange then. Do you have another router to try? I'm leaning towards it being that, but as your desktop isn't affected, it could well just be your netbook staring at the bucket in the room. Maybe try something *nix on the netbook and see if the problem persists?
You don't need to be transferring tons of data to reach the connection limit, some application could be spamming connections open and not be using them. You could try installing Wireshark and see what is causing connection problems.
[QUOTE=leach139;33329150]That's really strange then. Do you have another router to try? I'm leaning towards it being that, but as your desktop isn't affected, it could well just be your netbook staring at the bucket in the room. Maybe try something *nix on the netbook and see if the problem persists?[/QUOTE]
Someone else uses this netbook at night at my old house, which has our old router. And I don't hear them complaining about being booted off [I]nearly[/I] as much. Though apparently it still happens.
I'd use a Linux distro or something, but I lost my flash drives and obviously a netbook tends not to have a disc drive. Plus the last time I tried installing a distro along side Windows I broke the boot manager and had to reformat... :suicide:
[QUOTE=bohb;33342280]You don't need to be transferring tons of data to reach the connection limit, some application could be spamming connections open and not be using them. You could try installing Wireshark and see what is causing connection problems.[/QUOTE]
Okay, I'll try that but I don't know what sort of program would be causing such a thing...
I'll report back with results.
Edit:
Well I could if I knew how to do it... I don't understand this thing whatsoever.
Just tell it to start monitoring your ethernet/wireless connection and it will start sniffing packets. You can figure out which packets are going where and why.
I got around to doing it, since I was busy...
I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for, there's a lot of packets of all different kinds, some are black with red text and some are red with yellow text, blue ones, green ones, I have no clue.
TCP keep alives, member requests, I have no clue what I'm supposed to be seeing...
Though I've noticed this is what appears the most:
[code]43266 773.909002 98.160.242.245 192.168.33.100 UDP 560 Source port: 52610 Destination port: 61572[/code]
Edit:
And at times, the packet flow will stop for a split second and I have several entries of this one thing after it starts again.
[code]43444 849.243078 192.168.33.1 239.255.255.250 SSDP 334 NOTIFY * HTTP/1.1 [/code]
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