re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 2:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David (2 messages posted) I am wondering the same thing is this a Dell/XP problem. My Dimension 8200 has dropped its networking connection for a "few seconds" randomly for about 2 years now. I have switched out the cables, Ethernet card, and even put in a new wired switch (to replace an old wired switch) to try and solve the problem. None of it worked. Then I upgraded from XP home to XP Pro and for 4 months the problem was solved, then one day the issue came back. It always seems to wait at least 30 minutes before dropping the connection the first time but then seems to be random after that. I tried working with Dell and they were not much help. Then after I installed the XP Pro upgrade (retail version) I started working with Microsoft directly. We have been trying different things for about 2 weeks now and nothing seems to solve the problem. It is strange that the upgrade to XP Pro solved the problem for a few months. I have another friend who is running XP home on a Dell Dimension machine and he has had the same problem of the network dropping randomly. The good news on mine is it restarts itself within a couple of seconds and renews the IP license from the 2wire router and goes back to work. Problem is it kills IM's and Skype and any NetMeeting I am hosting so I can't use this machine for anything critical. I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop hooked to the same wired switch with NO problems whatsoever. It has been rock solid on its connection for over 2.5 years. It makes me wonder reading previous posts if this is a XP / Dell Dimension (or Desktop) bug ? Any thoughts or ideas out there? On Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 7:26 am, Barry Howarth wrote: >I have two Dell(!!) machines networked and with a broadband connect to the internet. >The directly connected machine will always connect but the networked one sometimes >connects and sometimes doesn't. When it does connect sometimes IE will work and sometimes >it won't. The network between the two systems is always OK - file sharing printers >etc. > >Is this a Dell problem? > > Written in response to: re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Barry Howarth: Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 7:26 am) Responses to this message: re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Anthony: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 6:13 am) All messages in this thread [show all] 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) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Billbo: Sat, Sep 17, 2005, 10:23 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Xavier Castillo: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 9:04 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (john: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 3:59 pm) 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) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 2:31 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 8:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Mark: Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 3:29 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Steve: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 1:50 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Rajesh Sharma: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 8:15 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Kelvin: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 11:50 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jesse: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 11:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Ed: Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 6:54 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Sreev: Tue, Feb 7, 2006, 9:55 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (david: Thu, Jun 22, 2006, 12:35 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (JTor: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 9:31 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (carol: Mon, May 14, 2007, 2:05 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Bob N: Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:26 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Sun, Jun 10, 2007, 2:46 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Glen Taylor: Sun, Jul 8, 2007, 9:58 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 9:57 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Trevor: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:48 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) re: DISCONNECTION at random (IRRITATION: Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 4:08 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum