To start with, I will point out that I am using a new (less than a year old) gaming laptop to access Second Life. For a while, I've been able to use the animesh release of Firestorm (6.0.2[56680]), which I had started using on my older laptop. However, lately I've noticed that anytime I try to use the updated Firestorm viewer or most recent Second Life viewer, my internet crashes. As in, system-wide, nothing involving online content works properly. To be clear, the router still works, and other people in my household are able to use internet just fine. For whatever reason, though, my network adapter seems to lose functionality after I try to log in, and usually requires a system reset to restore access to the network.
As I said, the animesh release for Firestorm works just fine, and everything runs smoothly on medium graphics settings. Has anyone else had this issue, or know what the problem might be?
Some additional details for reference:
The laptop itself is an MSI GF63 Thin 9SC gaming laptop, with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 graphics card, and an Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz network adapter.