Skype causes wireless internet to disconnect

Hey guys, so my Skype over the last 3 or 4 days has been disconnecting me from the internet on my laptop when I've been in a call for almost exactly 25 minutes every time. I know Skype to be the problem because I never get disconnected when it is closed or when I'm not in a call with someone.
I researched the problem quite a bit over the past 2 days and have applied the "fixes" I agree with. Those are: Unticking the Use port 80 and 443 for additional incoming connections box
                 Unticking enable uPnP
                 Temporarily disabling my AVG Antivirus software
                 Uninstalling UTor-rent (This site doesn't like that word for some reason)
                 System Restoring my laptop to before the disconnections started
                 Restarting my laptop (of course)
This issue is really becoming a pain for a competitive gamer such as myself when I really need Skype to communicate with my teammates.
Any help would be appreciated and I will answer any questions you might need an answer to as quickly as I can.

Capreolus wrote:
Hi! You mention this was approx half a year ago, have you since then tried any newer versions of Skype? If so do they behave the same way? This seem to be an issue with one spesific network, does skype seem to interfere with other networks? Is this occuring even when Skype is not running? Capreolus,The answers in order:Yes, have tried latest version which is why I am searching for an answer. To clarify, the issue started about 6 months ago but has not gone away regardless of updates. I only tried uninstalling Skype as a solution when I stumbled on a solution to another issue on another machine with other software that jogged my memory that this occurred after I installed Skype so I tried uninstalling as a fix. Of course, that defeats the prupose of having Skype.No, it only seems to be this one netowrk but what ever Skype does, no one else seems to have connection issues but no one was looking for issues among the customers. I happened to mention it.Yes, it occurs when Skype is not running.  I actually have not tried running Skype while there as I had no internet access so why try to use Skype!I am going to be off the grid for about two weeks so replies will be delayed.  Thanks. 

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