Background: Windows 7 Home Premium service Pack 1, AMD Phenom X4, 8GB of Mushkin RAM, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue, etc etc
I've been trying to download games like League of Legends, War Thunder, etc lately. Before I had no problem with this. Now every time I try, I start up the game's launcher and attempt to start downloading. It starts normally for about 45 seconds, then the speed dips down to under ~1mbps usually around ~200kbps. After a while of that, whatever network adapter I'm using stops working. (i.e. I get the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark on it.)
I've tried multiple different games (i.e. multiple different servers), two different internet modems, I've called me ISP who suggested a new modem, I've tried not using my router and hooking my PC up directly to the modem, I've tried two different (mostly known good) Network adapters (One was my onboard and the other was an Intel network adapter that was a full speed 100.mbps adapter.
I'm getting very frustrated with it.
I found out the other day that WarThunder offered an alternative download method. They offered a torrent link. I tried that last night. It seemed to work (about as well as a torrent with almost no seeds will work.) When I woke up this morning it was about 85% finished but my network adapter had stopped working again.
In the past when it stopped, a full power cycle of my modem and router seemed to fix it. Anymore I let windows troubleshooter fix it and I'm pretty sure all it does is disable the adapter and then re-enable it.
Any help, suggestions, or anything is greatly appreciated.
Edit: Just thought of something else, I changed the download location to a different drive to see if it would change the results (on the off chance that is was some freaky bizarre writing speed issue on my C: drive.)
I've also posted this to /r/24hoursupport but unfortunately that community takes a while to respond and doesn't always help.
I've been trying to download games like League of Legends, War Thunder, etc lately. Before I had no problem with this. Now every time I try, I start up the game's launcher and attempt to start downloading. It starts normally for about 45 seconds, then the speed dips down to under ~1mbps usually around ~200kbps. After a while of that, whatever network adapter I'm using stops working. (i.e. I get the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark on it.)
I've tried multiple different games (i.e. multiple different servers), two different internet modems, I've called me ISP who suggested a new modem, I've tried not using my router and hooking my PC up directly to the modem, I've tried two different (mostly known good) Network adapters (One was my onboard and the other was an Intel network adapter that was a full speed 100.mbps adapter.
I'm getting very frustrated with it.
I found out the other day that WarThunder offered an alternative download method. They offered a torrent link. I tried that last night. It seemed to work (about as well as a torrent with almost no seeds will work.) When I woke up this morning it was about 85% finished but my network adapter had stopped working again.
In the past when it stopped, a full power cycle of my modem and router seemed to fix it. Anymore I let windows troubleshooter fix it and I'm pretty sure all it does is disable the adapter and then re-enable it.
Any help, suggestions, or anything is greatly appreciated.
Edit: Just thought of something else, I changed the download location to a different drive to see if it would change the results (on the off chance that is was some freaky bizarre writing speed issue on my C: drive.)
I've also posted this to /r/24hoursupport but unfortunately that community takes a while to respond and doesn't always help.