Brave crashing internet connection

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the only time my internet connection drops is when I am using an Non-Private search window. happens as often as every 3-4 minutes and is much worse when using Youtube for some reason.

What happens? all the sudden Videos freeze and try to load, messages won’t send etc. shutting off WiFi and waiting 10 seconds fixes it until the next time, of course.

I’ve been searching through the forums here and have learned of other people experiencing similar issues. I couldn’t find any active posts or posts since 2022 so I guess i’ll start this again.

one thing i did learn from past posts is that using a “private” window in Brave works and won’t drop the connection. also i can use Firefox and there’s no connectivity issues. and no issues with this with iPhone, iPad or my 2012 MPB running Catalina.

Read that disabling IPFS in the settings can help but I can’t find it…

This issue has only been going on since I moved into a new house about a month ago. Maybe there’s something about the router that’s messing with this particular Brave build. I don’t know but jacking with the router isn’t really an option as it’s located on my landlords side. and since the non-private windows, on this mac, are the only thing causing the disconnection I don’t see much point digging elsewhere.

any help or a straight up ‘solve’ in the next update would be splendid.

Using Brave Version 1.73.97 Chromium: 131.0.6778.108
2017 Macbook Pro / Ventura 13.7.1 (22H221)

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You might . . .

Set up each Mac computer to use your local in-house Wi-Fi.

On each Mac computer, open a Terminal.app window and enter the same command - picking a domain - for example:

ping -c 30 -i 2 youtube.com

Tap each Mac computer’s Return/Enter key at the same moment or close enough.

Compare the results.

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it’s really only on one mac as i said above. the other i use mostly for mobil music production and would prefer not to mess around on terminal with it since it’s not affected.

I’ll try whatever to fix this on the 2017 but could you please give me some indication of the purpose and what I should be looking for? thanks

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First line of your description in your Original Post (“OP”) above:

“the only time my internet connection drops is when I am using an Non-Private search window”

That means, the probability is high, that your Internet connection is OK and not “dropped.”

In order to verify that your Internet connection is probably OK, you can test it, by following the suggestion:

You would learn something, a network test method, that will be useful in the future. And for the moment - your issue at present - you can compare the quality of the Internet connection, per Mac.

Running the commands, is not going to upset either Mac.