The internet experiences interruptions but remains partially functional over time.
The internet experiences interruptions but remains partially functional over time.
Hi! Usually I don’t have to ask since answers to even the weirdest issues are already available online, but I haven’t found mine yet. Here’s what’s happening – after some time (maybe an hour or a day, it’s hard to say when it starts) the internet stops functioning properly. I can still access sites that were opened in Chrome, not just the cache, but I can’t open new pages in any browser. Dropbox is down, Steam and games work perfectly, and after rebooting everything it’s back online again. I’ve tried closing unused processes and disabling Avast, but it won’t restore my network. It began after I swapped my 1TB hard drive for a 2TB one, though the data was cloned and the drive kept being used for music and movies. I’ve been using the latest Win10 Creators Update since day one without any issues, always up-to-date and never a beta version.
The performance or AV software sounds similar. My Lenovo Y700 isn’t accessing network shares or logging onto my modem through the web browser, even when the Lenovo Nerve Center is installed and SEP is running (or disabled). I had to fully uninstall either AV or the Nerve Center. It was frustrating because it worked during loading but failed completely afterward, leaving all shares blank.
it occurred a long time ago while I was using a WRT54G Linksys router. The internet would slow down when I used BitTorrent (of course for legal torrents). I had to install firmware updates from a third party, and it seemed to fix the issue afterward. It might be a similar problem now.
My router runs TPlink with OpenWRT, same version for over four years, and all other devices are working fine. I’ve tried disabling and removing Avast for a few weeks, but the issue remains. Avast is still installed on two Windows 10 computers with CU, yet they don’t have problems. My system is running at its fastest—i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, two SSDs with ample space. It performs exceptionally well.