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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
December 25 2009 01:53 GMT
#1
Pretty weird/annoying thing that's been happening for a while now. What would happen is that after some period of internet usage, I would be unable to establish new connections. As in, I can't load any more pages or anything. However, my existing connections (IMs, torrents, downloads) would still work fine, meaning I still have internet. I just can't start any new connections. I have no idea why this happens, and nothing in my network properties seems out of the ordinary. Resetting my adapters didn't do anything, and I have the latest drivers.

Restarting my computer fixes this issue, but obviously, that's annoying. Anyone know why this happens?

Also, this happened with the internet in my college dorm, as well as the internet at my house. So it's not a ISP problem, something on my end :\

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motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-25 01:57:07
December 25 2009 01:56 GMT
#2
Try setting a max upload speed on your torrent program instead of letting it max out.
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
December 25 2009 02:06 GMT
#3
How does that kill my internet? o.O
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Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
December 25 2009 02:08 GMT
#4
How long has this problem persisted and have you changed any network settings recently?
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
December 25 2009 02:16 GMT
#5
I don't think I've changed anything, it's been happening since ~Thanksgiving (a month?).

As of right now, I have found no pattern/trigger for the internet going down. It seems completely arbitrary.
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arcticStorm
Profile Joined January 2009
United States295 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-25 02:58:20
December 25 2009 02:46 GMT
#6
On December 25 2009 11:16 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
I don't think I've changed anything, it's been happening since ~Thanksgiving (a month?).

As of right now, I have found no pattern/trigger for the internet going down. It seems completely arbitrary.


Does it say connection timed out? (in firefox)

That happens to me whenever my torrents hog too much bandwidth. Windows isn't very good at distributing bandwidth across applications.
This statement is a lie.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
December 25 2009 03:12 GMT
#7
It's not a time-out issue, it's just no connection.
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SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21550 Posts
December 25 2009 03:32 GMT
#8
Probably a router or firewall issue, gets overloaded by torrent connections.
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-25 03:38:48
December 25 2009 03:34 GMT
#9
I torrented stuff for a few years, with no real change in how much I torrent (it's just a couple at a time), this never happened before :S

edit: In fact, this would happen when I'm not torrenting/dling anything too :\
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mainerd
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States347 Posts
December 25 2009 04:59 GMT
#10
this has happened to me in the past, web pages would not load at all but my torrents would continue dling. i think it has to do with the number of half-open tcp/ip connections windows allows. i run vista ultimate and after reading about the fix i just gave up, it said you need to change some file every time u boot or something... worth looking into tho.
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Azrael1111
Profile Joined July 2008
United States550 Posts
December 25 2009 05:11 GMT
#11
It is probably your router, I had the same problem with mine. Apparently they have a list of ips that you have connected to, and if you load too many before it clears the list it won't connect to any more.
Just get a new router.
Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
December 25 2009 09:07 GMT
#12
On December 25 2009 10:53 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:

Also, this happened with the internet in my college dorm, as well as the internet at my house.

Just to clear up, obvious question, but you had different routers/methods of connecting to the internet in both of these, correct? If so, its probably not your router (or, maybe a port issue...Opening ports? Less likely though)
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
December 25 2009 09:13 GMT
#13
I'm going to assume that my school doesn't use the same router as my house, so yeah :S
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Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-25 10:16:07
December 25 2009 10:12 GMT
#14
Being the barer of obvious (easily googleable) news, apparently you aren't the only one having this type of problem http://superuser.com/questions/25000/vista-internet-connection-stops-working-until-reboot
It could be something very very obscure (driver conflicts, for example [i've had a problem with using a ps3 controller drivers + using my zune on my computer before, though I deem this unlikely), or router related (possible, but my intuition says otherwise). I'll look into it more when I find the time :/.
Also, as mainerd said, it could be a max amount of connections allowed. Worth checking into: http://www.google.com/search?q=maximum number of connection vista&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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