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I am Stumped. one laptop slowing down entire network
ok guys this is a little long but im at a total loss.. I live in Montana, we have 60mb internet. Previous to Orbi i was using Airport Extreme Units. Orbi is up, Running and great. Bought ...
jcornfeld wrote:all i did was put an SSD in, restore the laptop, installed dropbox, itunes, icloud and some other stuff for my wife to do her college work with. im so confused as to what to do now lol
hi
so again , all those apps are syncing with their cloud and if she has a lot of data up in those clouds its going to take quite a long time to re sync the laptop to match the cloud in each case , you prob should have just installed one of them at a time and let them sync
i suspect the dos attacks are just part of how those apps communicate and the router is just throwing it up as an attack when its not really
whats the orbi connected to as far as internet as if its a modem / router you can get dos attacks just between the two
well i went ahead and ripped out the SSD that had the updates etc installed and put the stock HDD in there that was only used to boot up the machine and test the wireless card... no problems at all with the wireless with the old HDD, so i re installed the SSD and am doing a restore and will watch the network when im installing items and see what freaks out. Thanks guys.