I've got an Asus gaming laptop running Windows 11 and using Chrome on T-Mobile's 5G WiFi. For the past week, I've been experiencing some weird issues with my WiFi connection. T-Mobile mentioned there's a problem with a local tower, and I've been getting huge lags, timeouts, and even total outages lasting from minutes to an hour. It seemed like the issue was with T-Mobile. However, while I was streaming BBC Live today, I opened a second tab and got a DNS error. All the other websites I tried wouldn't load, making it seem like I had no internet, but the BBC stream kept going strong for 15 minutes without a hitch. Any ideas on what's going on? I love T-Mobile's speed over Verizon, but I'm struggling with reliability sometimes, particularly with high ping times and jitter.
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It sounds like there might be some settings in your WiFi connection or possible extensions in Chrome that are affecting your browsing experience. Some setups can have a whitelist of sites they allow to load, which might be why BBC streams but others don’t.
Thanks for the tip! I actually disabled all my extensions and even reinstalled Chrome, but it didn't change anything. Just today, I was watching BBC stream about the Air India crash and couldn’t load anything else, not even Google!