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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection'
Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 7:47 pm
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Posted by Tom Swanson (5549 messages posted)

Check your connections and make sure they are all clean. A Priest is always handy when dealing with networking, but GMs advice will do as a fill in, so follow it.

On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:13 pm, B.C. wrote:
>I have a question about Share
>an Internet Connection:

>I have a linksys etherfast cable router, a new gateway pc using XP and an older pentium
>III pc using win98fe, all connected to a motorola surfboard cable modem. In order
>to connect the XP computer to the router, I have to uninstall and then reinstall
>the driver for the ethernet card, restart the computer and then wait sometimes two
>days for the "Network cable Unplugged" message to disappear at which point the XP
>computer recognizes the router, and the router lights for link light up. The XP
>computer often loses it's connection to the router, with the same error message "Network
>Cable Unplugged" and the link light on the router for the XP computer turns off.
>Everything is connected and the network cables are new. I know everything works because
>I can still access the internet with the XP computer if I bypass the router, and
>reset the cable modem. Is this common? Do I need tech support or a priest? Sorry
>the question's so long.
>Thanks,
>BC

Written in response to:
Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:13 pm)

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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (dnudelman: Friday, May 7, 2004 at 10:08 am)

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Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:13 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (GM: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 5:46 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 7:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (dnudelman: Fri, May 7, 2004, 10:08 am)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Fri, May 7, 2004, 1:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Bob Forsyth: Fri, Jul 23, 2004, 8:57 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (James Carter: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 5:48 am)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (nelson: Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 8:13 am)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Brett Pierce: Thu, Sep 2, 2004, 10:33 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Fred Malott: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 4:07 pm)

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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 9:57 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Chirag Desai: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 5:38 am)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (BobK: Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 5:20 am)

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