I finally fixed a weird router issue that took me two days to figure out

My home network kept dropping every few hours, and I was sure it was a bad cable or my ISP. I spent a whole day swapping cables and calling support. Turns out, the router's built-in firewall had a setting that was too strict and was killing long connections. Has anyone else run into something like this with their own gear?

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troykim1mo ago

Glad you fixed it... but honestly I've never had a firewall cause that. Usually it's just old hardware giving up.

thompson.tyler1mo ago

My old Netgear router from 2018 had a "security" setting that basically treated my own laptop like a hacker. It took me three days of pure frustration before I found the checkbox labeled "aggressively drop packets for no good reason." I swear they design these menus to be as confusing as possible just so you feel like a genius when you finally fix it.