Spyder blocking internet

Description of your problem

Spyder seems to randomly/intermittently freeze my internet connection when I have it loaded.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Load Spyder
2. Load any internet application (most noticeable with Teamspeak/Skype)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Every 30 seconds to a minute anything that uses internet looses connection for about a second or so. With VOIP applications, the audio completely drops during this time, then suddenly comes back.

Please provide any additional information below

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.0.1
• Python Version: 2.7.12
• Operating system: Windows 10

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard and paste the contents below: jedi >=0.8.1 : 0.9.0 (OK) matplotlib >=1.0 : 1.5.3 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 4.2.0 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.11.1 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.18.1 (OK) pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.3.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.1.3 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 1.5.4 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.2.1 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.9.4 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.4.6 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK)

[CAM-Gerlach]

Just FYI, there isn’t a version 3.7 of Spyder; do you mean Python 3.7? Do you observe the exact same behavior as the OP, or is it different? Any details you can provide us would be really helpful in tracking down what’s going and seeing what we do to solve it. Thanks!

[sergionovi]

Hi @dalthviz I was using version 3.7. Now I am trying to update it to 4.1.4. I will let you know if the updating solves the problem.