2017-12-27, 11:02
Hi,
Had a couple of days of issues where my router crashed at home up to the point it couldn't even do it's DHCP work and couldn't login to the router anymore. I eventually narrowed it down to my MediaCenter PC with Kodi on it. So now the hunt was on for cable issues, broken NIC, driver issues or some other software killing my router when this PC turned on. But none of these were the issue.
A week before this issue started I upgraded Windows 10 to the creators update, and updated from 17.1 to 17.6 and also exchanged a harddrive for a larger capacity. So, changes.
My mediacenter PC auto starts Kodi via the Startup start menu folder with a delay of -d 3 added to the commandline. For many years now.
I found out that if I didn't auto start Kodi when Windows boots or quickly exit from Kodi when started then the router crashing didn't occur. So I used netstat on the commandline after Kodi auto started and I saw a lot of connections and netstat reporting these connections very, very slowly. This didn't happen when I started Kodi manually without the delay switch on the commandline.
I also tried upping from -d 3 to -d 10 but that doesn't help either. What works is not auto starting Kodi with the delay switch and just start it when Windows has booted.
I have no idea what Kodi does during it's startup process. I do know that my issue has been solved by not letting Kodi auto start on the MediaCenter PC.
Had a couple of days of issues where my router crashed at home up to the point it couldn't even do it's DHCP work and couldn't login to the router anymore. I eventually narrowed it down to my MediaCenter PC with Kodi on it. So now the hunt was on for cable issues, broken NIC, driver issues or some other software killing my router when this PC turned on. But none of these were the issue.
A week before this issue started I upgraded Windows 10 to the creators update, and updated from 17.1 to 17.6 and also exchanged a harddrive for a larger capacity. So, changes.
My mediacenter PC auto starts Kodi via the Startup start menu folder with a delay of -d 3 added to the commandline. For many years now.
I found out that if I didn't auto start Kodi when Windows boots or quickly exit from Kodi when started then the router crashing didn't occur. So I used netstat on the commandline after Kodi auto started and I saw a lot of connections and netstat reporting these connections very, very slowly. This didn't happen when I started Kodi manually without the delay switch on the commandline.
I also tried upping from -d 3 to -d 10 but that doesn't help either. What works is not auto starting Kodi with the delay switch and just start it when Windows has booted.
I have no idea what Kodi does during it's startup process. I do know that my issue has been solved by not letting Kodi auto start on the MediaCenter PC.
