Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:13 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by B.C. (2 messages posted) 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 Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (GM: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:34 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 7:47 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Chirag Desai: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 5:38 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