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ISP or Networking Issue? 30 days old and counting problem..
So let me explain this:
about 30 days ago my internet started cutting in and out. What I mean by that is sometimes the lights on my modem go out sometimes they don't but either way it interrupts my connection and sometimes it will stay offline anywhere from 30seconds-30minutes. The only solution I myself have found is to power cycle the modem when this happens but that only fixes the issue for a short amount of time before it occurs again. ALSO sometimes the internet won't even go offline but the download speed will be less than 1mbps (I'm suppose to get 15mbps)
So...
I called my ISP to figure out the issue and I have had 10 "technician's" out here in the last 30 days. They have replaced all the cords going to my home and inside my home, replaced the modem and router 3 times, and I'm still having the problem.
Today...
They came out here again and replaced the modem/router with a Motorola modem, and a netgear router. All worked fine for about 2 hours and then they called me and told me they were seeing some problems and said since they have done everything that it must be a device on the network. They told me to do this:
"Unplug the router from the network and just leave the modem connected to your hardwire PC for 8 hours, then unplug your hardwire connection and just use the wifi with the separate devices and we will see what happens. I honestly think this is an application you are running that is taking up so much bandwidth which is either causing you to lose connection or get really slow download speed."
Now...
I'm about 7 hours in and I started seeing the same problems and the only thing that was running at the time of the problem were these following applications
League of Legends
Teamspeak 3
Google Chrome
The odd thing is I have had all 3 of these applications running before with no problems...
Ultimate Question..
Is my ISP screwing up or do you think there is something wrong with my desktop that is causing these "crashes"? I appreciate any help you can give me because I am an MLG player and web designer so my work consistently involves being on the internet.
Thank You,
Cael