Google Chromecast may be crashing your WiFi network

Are you suffering from cuts and a poor quality of your Internet service lately? Do you have a Google Chromecast? If you answer affirmatively to both questions, surely you should stop bothering your operator that provides services and make sure that Google has confirmed a failure in its computers streaming.

Google Chromecast has been one of the star products from the internet giant. Its functions and especially its price have made this little gadgets is present in many homes. And as you well know, with it you can make your TV a somewhat smarter device. Among its star functions is Google Cast, the way in which the user can send the content they want from their tablet or mobile phone to the TV and be able to enjoy it on a larger screen.

However, quite a few users started complaining that their routers were failing more than they should. As is usual, we blame these failures or service interruptions on our service provider. Although in this case it is Google to blame for the malfunction. What is the ruling? As an engineer from TP-Link, one of the affected router brands, has commented, It is due to the massive sending of packages when the equipment that emits 'wakes up' from its suspension.

Normally, as he explains, this shipment is done every 20 seconds to maintain the connection and the shipment of operational material. However, it has been discovered that when a computer wakes up from its sleep mode, can send up to 100.000 packages in a very short time. This will depend on how long it has been standing: the longer it is, the larger the shipment.

The result? Well, that your router is inoperative for a period of time or that it stops connecting to the Internet. Companies like her own TP-Link, ASUS, Synology, Netgear, among others are working to send their own solutions and be able to alleviate this problem. Likewise, Google has already publicly commented that it is already working to update the firmware of its equipment as soon as possible.