re: Network Cable Unplugged
Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dwayne O
(4 messages posted)
Hey Billy... I have just gone through the same kind of thing. I started off with
the WRT54G and was having the same problem you are having. Also, i was using it for
wireless G with my laptop and that didnt work very well either... I researched extensively
on the internet and came to the conclusion that the WRT54G was one of the lowest
recommended routers. Apparently Linksys has had major issues for some time now, although,
there is some hope that things will improve since Cisco bought Linksys. At any rate,
I took back my WRT54G and bought a D-Link DI-624 router. The wireless works much
better although there are still some intermittant problems. Ive learned that this
may have somthing to do with interference from wireless telephone devices running
in the same frequency rage as the router (2.4GHz). I still occasionally get a "network
cable unplugged" error message with my tower PC wired connection, but, it is very
rare... Only happens every few days... I still have yet to find a definative answer
for the network cable unplugged error message. I seem to get it regardless of the
router I use, just to varying extents. There may be some merit in the fact that my
network cables and ports on my NIC are old (3-4 years) and may just be dirty.. A
quick cleaning with a Q-Tip and alcohol might help...
I can however make a definitive comment on your second issue with web pages being
slower with the router out of the loop. The router's default setting is to "Use router
as a DNS cache". With the router between your computer and your modem, it caches
DNS calls, which, makes web page surfing faster. With your computer connected directly
to the modem with NO router, there is no DNS caching. So, every time you "ask" for
a web page, you computer must wait for your providers DNS server to give it information,
making internet browsing slightly slower at times.. DNS caching is one of the nice
"bonuses" of using a router.
I sure hope i can sovle this "network cable unplugged" thing... It may have something
to do with your NIC advanced properties being set to "autosense"... I might tweak
that a bit and see if the problem goes away.. Then again, as I mentioned before,
it might just be a dirty connection..
Dwayne
On Friday, February 18, 2005 at 6:13 pm, Billy Shears wrote:
>Here's my tale of woe: I've been using a linksys WRT54G router for my computer to
>hook up to my comcast cable modem. This is a wired connection btw. Anyway, every
>now and then the bubble at the right of the taskbar comes up and says "Local Area
>Connection 3 (and underneath) A network cable is unplugged." and disappears within
>a second.
>
>Internet access isn't hampered, but when I'm playing an online computer game for
>instance, say UT2004, the action will freeze for a few seconds, i.e. people will
>be running in midplace, rockets will be frozen in midair, and if I'm in some kind
>of vehicle, it'll go in whatever direction I had it going last, even if I try to
>move it in a different direction. This will last a few seconds and then I'll be
back.
>This doesn't sound too painful, and I could live with it, but it happens so often
>that it gets really annoying.
>
>Thought it might be the firmware on my router, but have been upgrading as they've
>been releasing, and still no luck.
>
>Here's the weird part(s): I tried directly hooking my PC to the modem to see if
it
>actually was the router, and my gaming connections weren't hampered at all. When
>I tried to use Internet Explorer, however, the pages would take about 5-10 seconds
>to load, as opposed to 1 when I had it going through the router. So gaming improves
>when I have it going directly to the modem, but internet access and instance messenging
>programs (AIM, MSN) work better when I have it going through the router. This doesn't
>even make sense to me, logically. How can my internet connection be better while
>going through the router than when directly connected to the modem? Shouldn't, logically,
>the connection be either the same or worse?
>
>I'm running Windows XP, have the WRT54G router with latest firmware, and a DCM425
>modem.
>
>Any help would be......very....helpful.
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