re: Network Cable Unplugged
Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CW
(1 messages posted)
After many hours/days of working on this, I solved same problem by disconnecting
my 2.4 gh cordless phone...some brands i.e. Panasonic...interfere. I'm going to
replace with 5.8 gh phone..
On Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 9:41 pm, Dwayne O wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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