Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Why Might My Internet Connection Randomly Stop Working?" video.

  1. Another one is wifi router failures. Word is that with many routers, you need to replace them every 5 years or so. I bought my first stand alone wifi router in 2016 from Netgear, and it did great until it dropped the Mac address for my desktop computer, and no matter how I tried, it would not pick up the Mac address, this was around a year ago. Don't recall ever remembering to check for firmware updates, but the router would not see my desktop so my internet was severed there. By this point, the router was over 5 years old, so bought the TP Link Archer 80 router and installed that and I had my internet back. Currently, running Verizon 5G wireless internet and its gateway occasionally needs to be reset, then my router is able to see the internet after a few minutes. I have updated the firmware at least once on the current router and perhaps the gateway as well. I rarely have internet issues, but YouTube occasionally slows down, a refresh of the browser seems to solve that. I do keep my router out in the open so that helps with heat buildup.
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