So, in noticing general trends, I seem to have uncovered an (in retrospect) obvious link between cheap routers, port forwards, and network disconnects.

It seems that, on a cheap router, if you have X port forwards you are increasingly likely to have random disconnects and such (especially with wifi) as X increases…

so if your internet throughput is crappy. you’re experiencing ertratic ping times, and getting lots of crappy disconnects… try removing all your port forwards… seems to9 really work. My best guess is that theres just not enough cpu/ram to maintain the tcp stream states.