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Ok, so a little insight first.

I bought an absolutely new router (TP-Link W841N) in May and it worked perfectly until the end of July. That’s when I started having packet losses in any multiplayer game I played.

I have two laptops in my home, the first one is mine which I use for gaming and is connected by cable through router. The the other one is used by my mother and she’s connected through wi-fi eating very little to none traffic.

Funny thing is that I changed my ISP two weeks ago (that was done for other reasons, not because of packet losses) and everything became great again up until yesterday, a fact which I find quite weird.

Here are the things I tried in no particular order:
– connecting my laptop directly to internet cable to see if it is ISP’s problem;
– updating my router to the latest version from the official website;
– resetting my router settings to default;
– using different router channels;
– using different cables;
– disconnecting the second laptop and all other devices like my smartphone from wi-fi;
– trying my laptop, cables and router at a friend’s house who has a different ISP (I don’t believe the outcome of it though seeing as how for the past two weeks with the new ISP everything was good for me as well);
– reinstalling my windows;
– some others which involve messing with router settings.

Sometimes these losses are not memontarily but go on for as long as 20 seconds at which point I can’t access any website let alone play a videogame.

What is also worth mentioning is that when I’m using router I can’t access certain websites, like, funnily enough – http://tp-link.com/, whilst it’s accessible to me when I’m connected to the internet directly by cable.

Every person with a problem similiar to mine I found surfing all sorts of internet forums says changing the router doesn’t solve the issue which is both calming and the same times make me wanna kick a well with my head because if it’s not a solution – what is?

I’m open to the most bizarre and crazy ideas and suggestions because I’m out of my own.

Quoted from Popcorp

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Dont know if those can potentially help, but you can always try em out i guess

default windows is fine as it is. user settings or hardware on the other hand….might not be

i dont beliiv dat

easy way: get both laptops to do ping fakkelbrigade.eu -n 1000000

if ur laptop is timing out while other laptop is fine then its ur laptop (or router ddos block. tp-links have it and id advise to turn it off)

if both time out – router or isp

this test might take some time as i understand timeouts are random

you can play games or do what ever while its going on too, just make sure you can check 2nd laptop once u start timing out

Whilst we’re on hardware though – I began to have massive lag spikes ever since the last tf2 update. Any suggestions?

Ok i can give you some help from my experience,mine is lag related doe(bit simmilar i can agree)

1.Turn off the shitty windows firewall if u have an antivirus..Or jus unblock connections or/remove internet security part of the firewall or/add exclusions to steam etc..

2.Check your antivirus internet security side especialy if its avast and do it 4 sure if its avast internet security.u can adjust all the security stuff and exclusions

3.Go to 192.168.1.1 and then there should be like a router system basicaly join in with admin admin or user user (name n pass) and remove ddos block,remove the router firewall completely and try trying to turn on turn off the ping block and some other firewall related features