Wireless disconnecting every now and then

Hello, I have this annoying issue that every 30 mins or so my internet would crash for a short 10-30 secs, which is very annoying in games.

It only happens at home, so I know it's not my laptops fault. My laptop also stays connected to the internet (little icon in the taskbar).

What I've tried so far is obviously restarting my router, also downgrading and reinstalling wireless drivers.

Also noteworthy is that after restarting the router it won't happen for an hour or so and then it gradually starts happening more often. For example 1st time 1hour, then 45mins, then 30, etc.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

 

Huh? It works fine in my dorm or hotels, so yes?

 

Check the power management settings for your wireless adapter, make sure it is always to maximum performance. Also check the lease time for your router and make sure it is set to something like a day.

Other than that it could be interference, your router simply not being handle the laptop's connection along with whatever else is hooked up to it or the router overheating.

 

Power management is on maximum performance, it also happens when my laptop is the only device connected to the router.

Resetting my router didn't help either -_-. It only started happening a few weeks ago and nothing substantial changed in that time either, I'm really clueless.

Nvm it actually could be my laptop considering my cellphone just worked when my laptop didn't. Up and downgrading drivers didn't work any ideas? My laptop never loses connection to the router, but it does to the internet.

 

There are a lot of things that may cause this. Obviously interference can play a role. If you already check lease time, then there is another thing to check is the Key Renewal Interval on the router. Most normal router use 3600(second) as default. It basically tell the client when using WPA to renegotiate the key at that interval. Normally this shouldn't cause a disconnection, as long as both devices are in compliance and works properly. But I guess you could try lengthen that setting and see how it works. Obviously if you connect the same laptop to other network that use either WEP or no security setting, then this would not apply. Another thing to take note is, just because that little icon say it's still connected, doesn't mean it's connected. You could still have a wifi problem. I suppose you could run a ping in the background to your router every 1 sec and log it, then maybe it will tell you more if your wiifi is disconnected. It's also possible that your internet may be disconnected every so often while your wifi is working fine. I would maybe ping 1st hop every 1 min and log them for maybe a day ( a lot of pings continuously for a long period of time and your ISP may not like it.) Your phone may not be the best source to keep track of this problem. since most traffic on the phone are basically web traffic, while gamine is a one continuous traffic. a single brief disconnect (even for half a sec) on your game may result in a disconnect of the game server, while a web may show a slight delay but not so noticeable. Think about it, say you load a webpage, after all the content in that webpage is loaded and it get disconnect for say 3 mins while you still reading the content offline during those 3 mins will not result in you noticing it.

 

Well, then the next question i would ask and that I should have asked earlier is what router and wireless adapter do you have?

 

Lease is on 24 hours and can't be changed, key renewal was default on 86400s (I've disabled it for now).

After disabling it disconnecting actually seems to happen less often. Might be a coincidence though.

 

Well my router is a Belgacom B-box, which I'm afraid you will probably not know. My wireless adaptar is Atheros AR9285.

 

Pinging to my router during a disconnect gives a time out. Sometimes 4 packets send and 4 lost, sometimes 4 sent and 2 lost.

 

That to me seem like the problem is with in your own network and not the ISP or your broadband. You can also if you are familiar w/ how to setup the router, to simply reset it to default and don't change any thing much just adding WPA(2) and see how that goes for a while, It could be some other setting in the router that's not fully compatible.

 

I've already reset it yesterday and that didn't help. I should've said that before sorry.