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Why does 1 packet lost disconnect me from all of my online services?

I am connected directly to my router with an ethernet cable. I’ve been having this internet connection issue where I would have my regular high speed internet, but at random times it would just disconnect me from one of my apps for a moment. For example, I could be playing an online game, streaming, and talking to a friend and all of a sudden they all disconnect but just for a moment. The issue is that this would completely shut down my stream and kick me to the main menu for my game, but my voice call would be fine. I opened a ping to 8.8.8.8 and ran my games and stuff and found that I lost just 1 packet out of the 1312 pings that were sent, and that caused my stream and game to disconnect. I’ve tried driver updates, firmware updates, network resets, cable replacements and the like, but nothing has fully fixed the problem. I’m assuming that it is an issue with my built in ethernet port, so I’m thinking of getting a new network adapter but I just want to make sure.

Edit: I was also pinging my router and ISP during this and neither suffered any packet loss

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I’m going to not rewrite this.

In reply to Why does 1 packet lost disconnect me from all of my online services?

To me this sounds like pings were working until they were not. I have never seen one lost packet causes total loss. I have seen the network drop out and then you get your packet losses. If recovery is fast enough then pings resume but all TCP/IP sockets are usually lost which seems to be exactly what your complaint is.

-> Since pinging your router and ISP seems fine, it’s likely to be an ISP to Internet issue so the bad news is nothing you do hardware or software wise should fix this.

TELL US WHICH ISP so we can check them out for reviews and complaints.

I use AT&T

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at&t

AT&T has a lot of complaints about that. However.

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However AT&T’s Internet offerings are many so I can’t guess what you have yet. Here’s a rather long link as testament to such complaints.

https://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+internet+drops+randomly+reddit+site:www.reddit.com&client=opera&hs=9s8&sxsrf=AOaemvKRvGWJtjYhC0_Z-ruyr4DRF5hpZg:1639239506811&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm4ISEk9z0AhWVHTQIHdJUBOMQrQIoBHoECA0QBQ&biw=1709&bih=882&dpr=1.1

As it stands what you describe is the usual drop and recovery.

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