Connection troubles

So I've been struggling with this for quite a while but now I'm getting suspicious. My connection started getting instable some months ago, somewhen my old router completely stopped working and I got a new one (a Speedport W 503V). The problems have just gotten worse, though. I've been told that it's some kind of a "region limit" but this is more like an internal issue, so I doubt that it's related to that.

By instable, I mean that my connection just randomly drops to zero nearby every minute, stays at zero for at least ten seconds, then continues. About every 15 minutes, my connection times out (note that I've set it to stay online all the time) and reconnects, forcing all uploads to abort (mainly the reason why I'm posting this because right now, I'm unable to upload anything to youtube and I should've uploaded stuff a while ago already). About every two to three hours, I get completely disconnected from my router, it refuses to reconnect, then tells me that either the WPA key is wrong, the connection has been reset while connecting or the connection timed out, so I have to restart. After restarting, the whole process gets cycled through again. It's starting to annoy me.

I've used both a PC with a WLAN stick corresponding to the router and a laptop with integrated WLAN, same thing happens to both. Is this really a "region limit" or just some issue with the installation?

sounds like the router is ****ed :|
tried a different one?

Well, like I said my old one stopped working and I got a new one some weeks ago, maybe three or four, and I don't think it's ****ed up after four weeks.

If its properly broke, and not a distance related issue, you should be able to complain to whoever you got it from

which would be the same support team that told me it's a region limit. (actually they just told me what to buy but they said the same thing about the old router before it broke completely)

I doubt distance is an issue since the router is in the room next to mine. Complaining to someone when I don't know what the cause of something is except for a region limit that I don't believe in anymore would be pretty pointless, imo. It may cut my bandwidth, but this is about the connection to the router, not the internet. (since I'm mentioning it already, would it be possible that I just get the connection cut for some time because it's too good/too fast? Router's speed is 270mbit/s while the region limit is 1024kb/s, as in I recieve too much (not that I'd notice recieving more than the limit), resulting in getting blocked for some time?)

that isn't related to router's speed at all

did you try asking your isp

"Region limit"? The hell is that?

I think its probably either broken or a piece of crap. Go pick up a nice Linksys or something.

Means we can only get 1024kb/s even if the router is faster than that.

Buying a new router again would make me feel somewhat dumb.

@Char: if support team qualifies as ISP, yes, otherwise no.

Ah, I see. Makes sense. Though I think it uses another term for it, but I can't recall it at the moment.
If you don't wanna buy a new router, have the ISP (Internet Service Provider) look into it. Odds are, the support team wasn't from the ISP (or rather, I hope not).

router speed != internet speed
your router might be 270Mbps but that doesn't mean your net is also 270Mbps

support team of what though? the place where you got your router or where you get your internet?

Telekom support service aka our ISP's support.

I don't know how or why but temporary disconnects don't seem to affect uploads anymore (at least I can upload stuff again). The disconnect from router issue isn't fixed, though.