Roll20 uses cookies to improve your experience on our site. Cookies enable you to enjoy certain features, social sharing functionality, and tailor message and display ads to your interests on our site and others. They also help us understand how our site is being used. By continuing to use our site, you consent to our use of cookies. Update your cookie preferences .
×
May your rolls be merry + bright! 🎄
Create a free account

Roll20 killing my laptop's internet connection somehow?

First off, I realize that this is a weird, weird problem and that Roll20 shouldn't be connected to this at all, but here's what's happening. During every one of my last 3 sessions (I'm DMing, a/v enabled, six of us connected to the session), almost exactly 2 hours in each time, my internet gets completely choked up and I can no longer DM. It's not just Roll20 that gets choked up but my entire internet connection (speed tests show download speeds dropping by at least an order of magnitude and upload speeds dropping to less than 1 Mbps) and it remains that way until I disable/re-enable my wifi adapter (it stayed choked up for hours the first time it happened until I figured out how to fix it). The internet-choking is entirely local to my laptop—other devices in the house are not affected (so it's not my router or ISP). The only time this ever happens is when I'm playing Roll20, and it's reproducible after ~2 hours. I'm using a Lenovo Y500 running Windows 10, and I play Roll20 through Chrome. It's the regularity of it that's weirding me out at this point. Once is a fluke. Twice is a coincidence, but three times in a row is a pattern. I just can't figure out why the heck a web app would be killing my wifi adapter!  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Any ideas?
1589206505
B Simon Smith
Marketplace Creator
Are you running any other extensions?
Right, good question. These extensions are currently activated on Chrome (I have not yet tried running Roll20 without them): AdBlock StayFocusd Kicktraq Habitica Pomodoro SiteKeeper I always forget to check extensions. :-) Next time I play, I'll try turning these off to see if that makes a difference. Though if you know of any that cause known problems (AdBlock seems a likely culprit, now that I think of it), please let me know!
Played Roll20 with the extensions above killed, and I did not experience the same problem as before. So I suspect it's one of these.