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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes
Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 12:40 pm
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Posted by Tom Borden (1 messages posted)

For the past 10 days I have been experiencing intermittent diconnection from network/DL 
Internet connection. For the last two days, I had ZERO Internet service and was unable 
to see other computers on my home network.

I was getting "A network cable is unplugged" message. I wasn't, but I replaced it 
anyway. Problems persisted. Managed to figure out that my DSL modem works. So assumed 
culprit was router. Bought new router and all appeared to go well, except that all 
of sudden, "A network cable is unplugged" has returned. Next thing I know, the network 
icon in Systray, is saying, "Your network connection is now connected."

Many times, I right-click the network icon to select "Repair" and am infomred machine 
cannot renew its IP address.  Sometimes, though, it works!

I suspect a virus at work here. If anybody has any clues, please let me know.

Many thanks,

Tom

On Monday, October 18, 2004 at 10:13 am, Lam Jam wrote:

>I have found a very simple fix for this problem. My computer is running XP Home, 

>connecting to the internet using a Linksys USB wireless adapter.

>

>Every few minutes, my internet connection drops, and I have to "choose" another 
wireless 

>network and connect to it.

>

>Well after pulling my hair out for a week, and scouring the internet blogs and communities, 

>I found an article that says, if you recently installed XP service pack one, then 

>you must disable the 802.1x authentication in the properties of the wireless connection.

>

>I tried it, and have been on the internet now with no drops at all. That's it.

>

>My wireless network is WEP secured, so I did not sacrifice the security for this 

>fix to work. It is a conflict between how windows handles the wireless connection 

>under Service Pack 1.

>

>It is a very simple fix. No need to edit registers, disable networks, re-boot machines, 

>no calling ISP's, no tampering with cable filters etc...

>

>Hope this helps.

>

>Lam Jam

>lamjam@almworldwide.com

>

Written in response to:: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Lam Jam: Monday, October 18, 2004 at 10:13 am)

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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (vida: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 6:28 pm)

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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)

If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Lam Jam: Mon, Oct 18, 2004, 10:13 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Tom Borden: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 12:40 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (vida: Wed, Feb 2, 2005, 6:28 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Barry Howarth: Sat, Mar 26, 2005, 7:26 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Tue, May 24, 2005, 2:24 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Anthony: Wed, May 25, 2005, 6:13 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Wed, May 25, 2005, 7:14 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (HJam72: Tue, Jun 7, 2005, 11:05 pm)

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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (adam: Sun, Sep 11, 2005, 5:07 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 8:15 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 3:03 am)

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