Help me convince my parents my router is complete **** and a waste of money.

[b00227783]

So I've been having huge internet problems for half a year now, and I'm getting sick of it. I've told my parents it's because the router they got after the last one fried in a lightning storm is ****. It's the only explanation. Internet before this one was stable and solid and only really got bad when everyone was online at once in the house and it was peak times. Now it's the most infuriating piece of **** I've ever ****ing come across. It randomly disconnects and asks for a user password, if it stays connected it rubber bands up to 2k pings, videos stop loading 3 or 4 times in the space of 30 seconds. Sometimes I get a glimmer of hope where it seems to be just like the old router we had giving me a stable 60-70 ping in games but that lasts for all of half a day before it ****s itself in the ass again.


I told my parents we should buy a new one. They disagree. They just think it's because of where we live. Bull****. If it's 70 ping one minute and then randomly disconnecting 5 times the next I think not. They think it's too expensive. Nope, what's expensive is paying 15 quid a month for broadband that doesn't work half the time(**** YOU ORANGE) along with all the other online memberships we have such as XBL, Spotify, and Netflix. And now they've said that me playing ONE game (League of Legends) on the computer has given it a ****ing virus that is making the internet slow.


TL;DR: Help me out, I live with technologically retarded parents who make random **** up.

EDIT: Oh and refer to my sig for an example of JUST HOW **** IT IS. The router is a Tenda W150D btw... tried to look for help online but there doesn't seem to be any on the official website which leads me to believe it's... outdated?

 

[Splintert]

Plug directly into the wall to prove that the router causes problems.

 

[b00227783]

Eh, why the **** I no think of that.

 

[Austupaio]

lol, playing video games gives you viruses, does it?

 

[MadocComadrin]

It looks like Tenda is a somewhat shady Chinese company.

 

[havoc]

Sounds like lies and slander to me.

 

[crazyboy11]

do you use a Wired or Wireless connection?

 

[Xlacier]

You can try pinging your router for a few hours or a day and see if it drops your connection and for how long.
In the Command Prompt(Win+R>cmd) type something like "ping -t 192.1681.1"; if you don't know your router IP type "ipconfig" in Command Prompt, and it usually your Default Gateway(192.168.1.1 in my case).  Press Control+C to terminate the ping test and get the results; dropped packets are a bad sign.


Alternatively, you can run a trace route in Command Prompt, "tracert taleworlds.com" to see if there are any unusually high pings between you and your destination IP.

 

[Rhox]

go to C:\Windows\ and dele the system32 folder it should fix your ping 
Why don't you save money and buy one yourself? Drugs are a very easy way to make money.
Tell them that your friends have a good net because they have a better router.
Or
Stop talking about it to your parents for some time then give and end to your router in the most "accidental" way. This one is very dangerous because maybe your parents won't buy a new router instantly.
OR
Make your mother addicted to cat videos then make she suffer waiting for the videos to load MWAHAHAHA.

 

[b00227783]

go to C:\Windows\ and dele the system32 folder it should fix your ping 
Why don't you save money and buy one yourself? Drugs are a very easy way to make money.
Tell them that your friends have a good net because they have a better router.
Or
Stop talking about it to your parents for some time then give and end to your router in the most "accidental" way. This one is very dangerous because maybe your parents won't buy a new router instantly.
OR
Make your mother addicted to cat videos then make she suffer waiting for the videos to load MWAHAHAHA.

Uh, ok.

So I got a few screenshots of things that appear when I disconnect.

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Clicking the link gives this:

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Clicking Advanced Settings gives this:

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Clicking Diagnostics gives this:

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I've also found someone else who had this problem online, but it's an old forum from 2011, and he didn't get much answers either. It's most definitely the router.

 

[Úlfheðinn]

Spill coffee on the router, convince your parents you need a new one due to "water damages", problem solved.

 

[b00227783]

Excellent, I had just made coffee too.

 

[Gambino]

It's probably not the router its the way it's installed this happened to me we bought a new one and it was verry slow and disconnects then my uncle came and fixed it up and now its working flawlessly..

 

[b00227783]

Eh, won't matter any longer, we are changing to BT and getting their free router hub thing... It's bound to be better than this dodgy Tenda company that makes our router combined with Orange broadband.