Windows 7 Atheros ar5009 loses connection...

[sazhron]

Hello !
I have been noticing I have a really bothersome problem that doesn't seem to be easy to understand why it should occurring.
The problem is, while my laptop is connected to the net, it sometimes just loses connection or something happens and every site I visit feels sluggish for around 1-3 seconds. Then it returns normally, I just wanted to see if its my router that is messing with me however it doesn't seem so. I tried with an older laptop and it seems it works perfectly and won't drop or so. So what I done was I were pinging with both laptops to google and checked if they Request time out and how big the time would be. When no problems I get around 30ms, however when it goes sluggish it hits 100~400ms. Then it requests timeout or just goes normally down to 30ms. Takes less than 2 to 4 hops.
I have been using my laptop for now 1 year and not done this until recently.
I noticed this by playing games at first then while surfing...or listening to radio...or viewing flash videos or whatever so. Just freaks out few secs then returns...

This is not fun and I don't know what to do. Can state that I am using Windows 7 64 Bit professional and my wlan card is a Atheros AR5009.

Hope anyone has come kind of knowledge what to do

 

[Trouble]

Looks like mDNSresponder.exe again.
Open services console by typing services.msc into the search box and hit enter
look for this string
##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##
double click it
choose stop and change the startup type to disable.

 

[TorrentG]

lol how did you open that, with WinZip?

I tried my default WinRar and also Windows Explorer itself and both said it couldn't be opened.

Anyhow, good find. If that doesn't fix it which it very well might, then check on all the other driver dates and update them as well, like for video, input device, audio, lan network etc...

 

[Trouble]

7zip.
I really like it when you do all the hard work and I get to jump in near the end with a probable solution, NICE.
I'll bet that's it, it's starting automatically as a service and was of course in the running tasks. Great work as usual TG, I just saw that you were pretty busy with the BSODs and thought I'd jump in on this one.

 

[TorrentG]

Heck yeah, no doubt, it's for sure appreciated. Same to you and thanks!

 

[sazhron]

Looks like mDNSresponder.exe again.
Open services console by typing services.msc into the search box and hit enter
look for this string
##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##
double click it
choose stop and change the startup type to disable.

Testing this, should I restart too or should it work at instant ?
Gonna trying pinging hope I won't get timeouts !

 

[TorrentG]

Reboot after.

 

[Trouble]

clear dns cache
command prompt
ipconfig /flushdns
ping this
64.233.169.99

 

[sazhron]

Okay, seems it reduced a bit the timeouts, now from 100 pings I get only less than 5% loss. And delays around 100ms which is okay. And normal time delays. I am happy at least its reduced
Hope this will work out now when playing games. I will give it a try.

 

[Trouble]

Open the services console again
type services.msc into search box and hit enter
scroll as needed to find IP Helper
double click and choose stop and set the startup type to manual.
Also consider disabling (unchecking) IPv6 in the properties of your adapter. If you're not using homegroups or direct access or tunneling to a Windows 2008 r2 server, chances are you're not using it.

 

[sazhron]

Open the services console again
type services.msc into search box and hit enter
scroll as needed to find IP Helper
double click and choose stop and set the startup type to manual.
Also consider disabling (unchecking) IPv6 in the properties of your adapter. If you're not using homegroups or direct access or tunneling to a Windows 2008 r2 server, chances are you're not using it.

Giving it a try !

**EDIT: still getting few timeouts, not as first time but still out of 100 5~6 timeouts... and around 20 huge delays.**

 

[sazhron]

Did a long time pinging...

Ping statistics for 62.119.189.4:
Packets: Sent = 3345, Received = 3268, Lost = 77 (2% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 858ms, Average = 23ms

Seems kinda okay, but still weird !

 

[Trouble]

ping the outside edge of your router. Go to whatismyipaddress.com and ping the ip address that it returns as yours. What are the results?