I noticed that I have the same problem. So I started looking at everything in my home network. Strangely when I start up my VPN (IPvanish) on my laptop, the power drops on my TPLINK router. That causes things to happen like my Amazon Fire TV Stick starts BUFFERING like crazy sometimes dropping the internet connection. At the same time my internet connection slows to a crawl and the VPN drops connection. Now, when I turn off the VPN and clear my errors on my laptop using "Jet Clean" and also "Glary Utilities" the power on my TPLINK router returns to normal 5 bar output. I have not figured this all out yet, but I can duplicate the problem EVERY time I start the VPN. I have to go through the same routine to get the power back on the TPLINK router. Is this weird (more weird than Austin) or what?