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Praiz

Different USB ports on PC giving different download speeds via USB Adapter.

As title states, fucking annoying, the USB ports at the back of my PC give me about 1/3 less download speed, and 2 less bars of internet strength connection, also I'm unable to watch 1080P streams etc with it plugged into the back without it reloading every 30 seconds for a second to buffer. Now the ones on the front of the case on my PC work perfectly, but every 30 minutes the internet dies until I pull out the USB adapter and put it back in, then it's fine with great strength and speed for another 30~ mins then it'll die, doesn't matter what I do, it will fail, I can leave the PC and if I come back it will be without internet, fucking frustrating.

Any idea why this is? USB 2.0 Ports also give much faster speed than USB 3, but all 4 ports on the front of my PC lose internet after 30 mins, none at the back do, but the speed is much slower, and I get rubberbanding(?) walking on the spot etc in games and constantly lag spikes if I use those ports.

Basically, why does it do this, and how can I get the ports at the front to stop dropping, every 30~ mins?

Any help much appreciated.

Posted May 10, 2014, 4:11 AM UTC

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InfoSecGeek•

To save power there are settings for the PC to reduce power for USB ports...you need to disable all that Windows control panel device manager. The usb radio you are using....is it on a cable so it's antenna is away from PC? When plugged into back ports the PC in causing lots of interfernce, it seems.

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PraizOP•

It's an adapter yea, so it makes sense that PC interferes in between, I'll check out the control panel options, thanks a lot :).

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fc_w00t•

It's most likely your adaptor (sorry) overheating from getting taxed passing the traffic non-stop. I ran into this multiple times while doing pen-tests. The cheaper adapters will literally die until they cool off.

The traffic is heating it up and eventually the adaptor will fuck up due to the heat. I wish I had better news....

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PraizOP•

Hmm, it was the most expensive one I could buy, I have a new way of using it and it seems to be getting better results, having it away from the back of the PC is definitely helping. Cheers :).

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