Connection Wierdness

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A few weeks back I started losing my Internet connection whenever I do a
lot of downloading. I will lose it for several hours up to over night,
but it always seems to be back on and working by the next morning. When
it happens I can still connect to the Internet on my PocketPC, so it
must be a computer issue. Bypassing my router doesn’t solve the problem.
Roadrunner support said it sounded like a problem with my network card
and now that I think of it I did start having problems not too long
after upgrading my motherboard and the NIC is built in to that. However
last night when it happened I tried hooking up the modem to the computer
via the USB connection and it was still dead until this morning.

I can surf the web or play games all day with no problems it only
happens when I am in the middle of downloading, either one big file or a
lot of little ones (backing up my website). I can pretty much break it
at will, but it only comes back up when it wants too. Shutting down the
computer and restarting has no effect on it, for the life of me I can’t
figure out how it repairs itself over night.

Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

Many thanks… Darren
 
A few weeks back I started losing my Internet connection whenever I do a
lot of downloading. I will lose it for several hours up to over night,
but it always seems to be back on and working by the next morning. When
it happens I can still connect to the Internet on my PocketPC, so it
must be a computer issue. Bypassing my router doesn’t solve the problem.
Roadrunner support said it sounded like a problem with my network card
and now that I think of it I did start having problems not too long
after upgrading my motherboard and the NIC is built in to that. However
last night when it happened I tried hooking up the modem to the computer
via the USB connection and it was still dead until this morning.

I can surf the web or play games all day with no problems it only
happens when I am in the middle of downloading, either one big file or a
lot of little ones (backing up my website). I can pretty much break it
at will, but it only comes back up when it wants too. Shutting down the
computer and restarting has no effect on it, for the life of me I can’t
figure out how it repairs itself over night.

Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
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Darren,

the conspiracy theory is that you provider throttles as your
throughput increases.

Why not test this with a different device. Invite a friend with
his computer to download something over your line.

Hans-Georg
 
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