Worked amazing this morning - watched a new episode of our kids favorite show that we didn't have access to before (~20 min long) flawlessly. BUT when we tried to load the next episode we lost our internet connection. I thought it was a fluke, but our ISP is pretty reliable and it just happened again. Tried to load a show, it was slow and laggy, then we lost our WiFi.

SO, obviously there's a problem. We aren't on a VPN yet because I read that we didn't need one when using RD, but something is clearly wrong and I don't want to piss our ISP off and lose our service.

I'm not using it of course until we figure it out. I've considered getting Proton VPN and trying with that, but I feel like after two times losing our connection I probably better not make any mistakes. 🫤

Advice please?

UPDATE: Resolved, I think. 🤞 Our WiFi came back after a while, and I made a few changes. I deleted the newer version of Stremio and replaced it with the older stable version, changed DNS to quad9, double checked my Torrentio configuration, and ran it using Proton VPN. It was slow and laggy, but I think that is more to do with WiFi speeds here than anything else. Tried without VPN and it still worked but didn't improve speed.

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Need a lot more info.
Where are you?
Who is your ISP provider? Does your ethernet work? What router do you have? Yours, or theirs?

[–] JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, we're in the US and use a small local ISP that just serves our general area. I keep this account anonymous so wouldn't give specifics.

hAP ac² router, belongs to the ISP. Unfortunately I don't have an Ethernet cable handy to test with at the moment.

Our WiFi hasn't come back yet so I'm probably an hour away from a really awkward phone call 😮‍💨

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

DO NOT mention that you're torrenting. And DO use a VPN as you're torrenting from public trackers.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Real Debrid does the torrenting for you. As long as stremio is configured properly to use it then no torrenting is being done from their home network.

[–] JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh! I just realized we have a Yolink hub connected to Ethernet, and it's online. So yes, Ethernet is working and WiFi came back online after a router reset. Now I just need to figure out how to make sure this doesn't happen again....

[–] OwOhollyShiitake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Just my two cents, but I had a similar problem and it ended up being a crappy WiFi adapter! As soon as you started any kind of big download on that particular PC the router would just give up, and we'd briefly lose connection on all devices, but permanently (until a reboot) on that PC.

I see that it's now marked as resolved but if it does happen again you can try checking if the adapter is working alright (could be power, drivers, firmware, etc)

That said, if you live in a first world country, do use a VPN if you can!

[–] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I’d first change DNS servers to quad9 or something other than the default

Then I’d try accessing behind a VPN a couple times and a couple times without VPN to ensure it’s repeatable

If they are blocking it, very odd and annoying