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Hi All!
Been about 8 years... I made the mistake of wandering into the Politics section all those years ago and I think I lost my faith in humanity. It hasn't been restored, but I have no idea how to solve this issue and I remember this site having TONS of smart/helpful people. So I'm swallowing my pride and returning to ask this .... Here goes.
I have a Linksys EA6350, it works for 99% of things, but 3 of my most used apps have super odd issues. But only on smart phones. When I log into Twitter, the app loads and all of the recent tweets appear, sans any images. Even if its a URL, the preview thumbnail isn't there. If I tap the images to make them full screen, a loading bar appears but it never fills. Not a deal breaker but annoying all the same. If I leave the app open and untouched, after about 5 minutes the missing media downloads and everything is normal. On Candy Crush (yes I know, I try to quit but I keep coming back) I can log in and play, but it won't sync any of my progress to Facebook until after (again) about 5 minutes of playing. Then all of a sudden, the little connecting icon appears and suddenly everything is synced again. Lastly, Hearthstone appears to load and play just fine but it has EXTREME disconnect issues. Sometimes it is completely unable to resume my game without killing the app and relaunching. By this time, I've lost due to time out. There are probably other apps with similar issues, but these are used a lot (I get bored easily). The router has been returned for a warranty replacement, I've checked every setting I can find in the (crappy) admin interface. Nothing works. Oh and I should mention this happens no matter how far away from the router I am. The only thing I can think of is simply buying a new router, but after all of this work on this thing, I just want to fight it until its fixed or it kills me. Any idea on what to try next? If your advice is to get a new router, which one do I buy?
TLDR ... router is sorta jacked, should I buy a new one?
Been about 8 years... I made the mistake of wandering into the Politics section all those years ago and I think I lost my faith in humanity. It hasn't been restored, but I have no idea how to solve this issue and I remember this site having TONS of smart/helpful people. So I'm swallowing my pride and returning to ask this .... Here goes.
I have a Linksys EA6350, it works for 99% of things, but 3 of my most used apps have super odd issues. But only on smart phones. When I log into Twitter, the app loads and all of the recent tweets appear, sans any images. Even if its a URL, the preview thumbnail isn't there. If I tap the images to make them full screen, a loading bar appears but it never fills. Not a deal breaker but annoying all the same. If I leave the app open and untouched, after about 5 minutes the missing media downloads and everything is normal. On Candy Crush (yes I know, I try to quit but I keep coming back) I can log in and play, but it won't sync any of my progress to Facebook until after (again) about 5 minutes of playing. Then all of a sudden, the little connecting icon appears and suddenly everything is synced again. Lastly, Hearthstone appears to load and play just fine but it has EXTREME disconnect issues. Sometimes it is completely unable to resume my game without killing the app and relaunching. By this time, I've lost due to time out. There are probably other apps with similar issues, but these are used a lot (I get bored easily). The router has been returned for a warranty replacement, I've checked every setting I can find in the (crappy) admin interface. Nothing works. Oh and I should mention this happens no matter how far away from the router I am. The only thing I can think of is simply buying a new router, but after all of this work on this thing, I just want to fight it until its fixed or it kills me. Any idea on what to try next? If your advice is to get a new router, which one do I buy?
TLDR ... router is sorta jacked, should I buy a new one?