when cpu reached 100% i lose internet connection

mwyngaarden

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Jan 21, 2009
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I recently upgraded to a Q6600 and am overclocked to about 3.4

Now, whenever my CPU usage spikes I lose my internet connection, connected through a wireless adapter.

My OS is XP 64bit, its a common Belkin external wireless adapter and this problem does not occur till I have all 4 cores at full throttle. Any ideas?
 

taltamir

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Mar 21, 2004
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your wireless adapter is using the CPU to encrypt and decrypt as well as decode and encode packages of information. It could be that when your CPU is overtaxed, it does not manage to complete those processes in a timely fashion and they are timed out, causing you to lose the connection. That is just a THEORY though.

Your CPU is very fast and I have not heard of such a condition before, I would guess a higher quality adapter, connected via a higher bandwidth connection would work better. Or maybe it is a driver issue. Its hard to know for sure since I haven't troubleshooted THAT particular issue with wireless before. But wireless is in general crappy.

Oh, maybe it has to do with your CPU being overclocked so much, maybe it is erroring on the encryption which is used to verify that it is really you sending those packets and not a hacker...

Ideally, just plug in an ethernet wire and disable your wireless adapter (windows for some reason prioritizes wireless connection over Ethernet if you have both... despite the Ethernet being better in every way).
You will find that the computer is faster due to the reduction of the wireless load, as well as a faster connection, and no more dropped connections.