Thread: Facebook or Marketplace Disconnecting from the Internet/Wifi

Never had that problem and i doubt it is FB or marketplace specific, more likely you just had a wifi/4g dropout.

I frequently get the message "Your internet connection was restored", which is news to me as there never seemed to be any issue elsewhere, such as here. But I don't use FB much so I'm not much of a sample. I have been wondering if it's browser specific, but have no evidence of same.
But it only happens on FB.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Never had that problem and i doubt it is FB or marketplace specific, more likely you just had a wifi/4g dropout.

Hello Loanrangie,

I am on Telstra 5g. Have been for a couple of years. There is also a clash with Facebook because I have the sheer audacity to choose to use an adblocker program that is free software. It slows the loading of images on Marketplace and grinds the speed of keyboard strokes down to a crawl slower then a snail. When the adblocker is clicked off all these sponsored products spring up and the pace of typing being displayed as I type increases dramatically. If Marketplace had not sprung to such great dominance I would not come near this stable of products.

Would going through a VPN restore the integrity of the internet connection and prevent the stable of goons hijacking my internet connection.

The loss of internet connection never happens when I am not using non stable of goons software.

Kind regards
Lionel

VPNs will slow you down. Some are way better than others. Lots of youtubers are sponsored by them. I wouldn't touch any of them. I use one for some things, but it ain't ever advertised.

Adblockers..... I don't use one. What I do use is Brave browser, which is similar in its format to Google Chrome, and can use Chrome extensions, but is better imo, and faster for my usage than Safari ( I'm on a Mac ). Thing is, with Brave I get no ads. Not on FB, not on YT, nowhere. Of course I still get paid promotions, but they are actually a part of the video or whatever. I also use Brave on my phone. Same deal. Brave also has a TOR page built in.

If I ever do internet banking (rarely ) I switch to Firefox.

Hello Tins and Loan Rangie - plus others,

My HP laptop computer is now dropping out of the internet and sometimes not even automatically connecting when it boots-up. This is without any connection to Facebook, Marketplace or Messenger.

I just went through the exhaustive process of finding out how old the computer is via the HP website. This activity of course took multiple manual reconnections to the internet while the HP program dropped out due to no internet connection being available. Then it wound up reaching a HP 404 error. As things frequently happen , after this ordeal I found a very quick way to find the serial number via the Powershell bios feature. I found out that my computer was made some time between Week 12 March 18, 2019 and March 24, 2019. The Australian Taxation Office allows business expenses such as computers to be written off after three years. I bought the computer in 2019. This computer has now become so unreliable right when I have my first commercial contract to meet by the 5th of March. My computer is just shy of being 5 years old.

Well, Mr. Computer - you got me through the final write-up of my PhD thesis without giving me any dramas. Tomorrow I will buy a couple of real nice large USB memory sticks and change my errant ways and perform duplicate copies of total backups.

Did I mention that my first professional - paid gig will be an online presentation? Where this is something that having an increasingly unreliable internet connection is not a good thing. There are three other computers in this house and none of them have the same ever increasing internet disconnection issues.

Mr Computer, I can no longer deal with your creeping bouts of unreliability and your ever increasing array of quirks. If I took you, 'Mr Computer' to a professional IT mob they would say that you are way too old to spend any money on. Yes, this is just another example of our disposable society. The prognosis is very grim for you old friend. I really need as a reliable tool as I can maintain access to and sadly you no longer fit the bill. It looks like I need a new 'Mr. Computer' as I open the chapter of providing wellbeing training professionally. Take some comfort in the fact that I have resisted my semi-Luddite inclinations and not selected the biggest hammer in my shed in the efforts to attempt to teach you a lesson or two. Just think how it could have been a much worse outcome for you. Please, Mr Computer, take some encouragement in the possibility that you may be designated to my shed. There you could be employed to run some software in the future, when I have some time to play with CNC routers and DIY plasma cutting programs. When I get to put my watching YouTube DIY projects into practice. Do not consider this to be the end for you Mr Computer... listen to the lyrics of a Slim Dusty song.. you my old friend are destined for the long yard - despite this I will not rush you... well not for a couple of days while I do some replacement research anyway. Oops, did I write the last bit down.. Accessed 27th February 2024, Slim Dusty -- Leave Him In The Long Yard - YouTube

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

If I took you, 'Mr Computer' to a professional IT mob they would say that you are way too old to spend any money on. Yes, this is just another example of our disposable society.
Lionel

Yes and no. Time, and tech, marches on. Modern OSs and programs and apps need ever more powerful resources to even run. I think you have "upgraded" to Win 11. Bound to be more memory and graphics hungry, depending on your usage. However, you are probably sailing close to the wind on the minimum requirements for 11. Not sure why this would impact on connectivity. I feel there's a systemic problem here.

I am sitting at a 12 year old 27" iMac.  ceased support for this, OS wise, around five years ago. I can't blame them, keeping code in there to support obsolete hardware just creates headaches. Through some jiggery pokery I run the latest macOS Sonoma, but I can feel it struggling. Graphics acceleration is the main problem, and I feel that this is the last OS upgrade that will be possible, particularly as  is now four years into its move away from intel chips. I will keep it, as I have kept all my Macs, as they all still work, although internet connectivity is not easily possible on the oldest ones now.

Buy a new one, Lionel. Wipe the one you have now, do a clean install of 7 or 10, put it in the shed. It should have little trouble with running small CAD programs, and will be fine for YT for some time to come.

Just my opinions, of course.

Originally Posted by Tins

Yes and no. Time, and tech, marches on. Modern OSs and programs and apps need ever more powerful resources to even run. I think you have "upgraded" to Win 11. Bound to be more memory and graphics hungry, depending on your usage. However, you are probably sailing close to the wind on the minimum requirements for 11. Not sure why this would impact on connectivity. I feel there's a systemic problem here.

Just my opinions, of course.

Hello Tins,

I also suspect a connectivity issue. However, putting lipstick on a pig by spending money on finding a local techie to identify and fix the connectivity issue, will still leave a 5 year old computer - it will still be a pig. I also like on most occasions when similar things happen, cannot wait during the downtime while the computer sits in a queue waiting for its turn to be looked at by a techie. Not that I would even know who to approach here in Bundaberg to look at it. Whether or not they are a good techie. Anyway, its repair would be taking money away from the buying power of its replacement. I need something that I can rely on and get used to operating confidently before my first paid gig. I have some consultation that Mr Computer decided to show its colours before it was needed the most - during a paid gig. It is not just the connectivity issues, Mr Computer has been starting to show its age with new quirks arising over the past year. What I need now is confidence and reliability in a computer. Two elements that are somewhat compromised within the incumbent tool.

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

I have some consultation that Mr Computer decided to show its colours before it was needed the most - during a paid gig.

Good to see the work focus here, Lionel. Consolation, perhaps?

Get a new one ASAP. You will no doubt have a bit of a learning curve. Better to do that before the gig, imo.