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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:34 pm Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) What is the model number of your Linksys router...?? Have you upgraded the firmware for your router...? (if there is an upgrade...check the linksys site...) Do you have DHCP enabled in the router...? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 7:47 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Check your connections and make sure they are all clean. A Priest is always handy when dealing with networking, but GMs advice will do as a fill in, so follow it. On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:13 pm, B.C. wrote: >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 5:46 pm Posted by B.C. (2 messages posted) model number is BEFSR41 thanks for the response, 'specially on Christmas On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:34 pm, GM wrote: >What is the model number of your Linksys router...?? > >Have you upgraded the firmware for your router...? >(if there is an upgrade...check the linksys site...) > >Do you have DHCP enabled in the router...? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Friday, May 7, 2004 at 10:08 am Posted by dnudelman (1 messages posted) I have the same problem!!! Can anyone help? All the connections are all right. Tha computer connects to the internet and sometimes, with no aparent reasons it looses its connection, esactly as described by our friend. HELP!!!!!!!!!!! On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 7:47 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Check your connections and make sure they are all clean. A Priest is always handy >when dealing with networking, but GMs advice will do as a fill in, so follow it. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Friday, May 7, 2004 at 1:38 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Losing an internet connection is not the same as losing, or being unable to make a LAN connection. If your problem is the same as the original post then follow GMs advice. If you are losing internet connection then we need to know what kind of a hookup you have. Standard dial up, DSL, cable and remote are all seperate issues with seperate problems. The following link can help out in most cases. Look for his section on networking. http://www.onecomputerguy.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Friday, July 23, 2004 at 8:57 pm Posted by Bob Forsyth (1 messages posted) I also Lose Connection now that I switched my PC from a HP Me to a dell XP. I have a cable connection and a Linksys router. Everything was fine till the dell was installed. All PC's work Fine Till the Main PC (dell) is Turned On and It Loses it all connections between 15 minutes to 3 hrs. Every day since I got this. Dell had me reinstall windows, same thing...replaced Mother board and card (all one unit) same thing. Linksys has no patchs for this and I see searching the net I am NOT alone here. It appears to be XP in all cases I see. Is it a Microsoft problem or just a Bad PC? Any help is appriciated. Again ALL connected PC's are Ok Till the main one goes on and then all go in 3 hours or less. On Friday, May 7, 2004 at 1:38 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Losing an internet connection is not the same as losing, or being unable to make >a LAN connection. If your problem is the same as the original post then follow GMs >advice. > >If you are losing internet connection then we need to know what kind of a hookup >you have. Standard dial up, DSL, cable and remote are all seperate issues with seperate >problems. > >The following link can help out in most cases. Look for his section on networking. > >http://www.onecomputerguy.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:48 am Posted by James Carter (1 messages posted) I have the exact same problem as well, and I thought it was just me. I have a Dell Dimension 8100 running Windows XP Home, SP1, version 2002. This problem started after I got my cable modem. It's a Motorola Surfboard, the newer version, but the problem happened with my old Surfboard modem, too. My router is a Netgear RP614, 4 port. I am running AVG antivirus and Zone Alarm's free firewall. It's maddening. Like it was mentioned above, my connection will go anywhere between 30 minutes to 3 hours, sometimes more, and it isn't based on activity level. One thing that is slightly different - I do not get a message about my network cable being unplugged. There's actually no indication that a connection is lost until I try to get on the internet. I also have an old AMD machine running Win98 hooked up - and this is the best part - it does NOT loose it's connection. I find it suspicious that previous posts have had XP on Dell machines, and this is not a Dell problem? I'm currently doing some internet research on this, and I will definitely post here if I find anything new. On Friday, July 23, 2004 at 8:57 pm, Bob Forsyth wrote: > >I also Lose Connection now that I switched my PC from a HP Me to a dell XP. I have >a cable connection and a Linksys router. Everything was fine till the dell was installed. >All PC's work Fine Till the Main PC (dell) is Turned On and It Loses it all connections >between 15 minutes to 3 hrs. Every day since I got this. Dell had me reinstall windows, >same thing...replaced Mother board and card (all one unit) same thing. >Linksys has no patchs for this and I see searching the net I am NOT alone here. It >appears to be XP in all cases I see. Is it a Microsoft problem or just a Bad PC? >Any help is appriciated. >Again ALL connected PC's are Ok Till the main one goes on and then all go in 3 hours >or less. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 8:13 am Posted by nelson (1 messages posted) We have had the same problem for about a month now. Running XP home edition on an HP Pavillion 220N. Motorola surfboard modem hooked to Linksys WRT54GS (LAN and wireless G) router. The router is new and the connection was fine for about 20 days. Then suddenly the HP (which was the primary computer when Comcast hooked up the connection) would lose connection. At the same time, however, a laptop computer using a wireless card could access the internet via the router. So I am thinking this has something to do with the HP/XP configurations? Sometimes disabling and enabling again the LAN connection icon in the network connections help (but not always). Sometimes right click on "repair" on the icon helps (but not always). Once, moving the Lan connection to another slot on the router helps (again but not always). Anyone come up with a solution to this? Maybe we will have to go with the initial suggestion of the priest .... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 10:33 pm Posted by Brett Pierce (1 messages posted) Same thing here.... 6 computers with a mix of Win98, 2000, and XP. The XP loses LAN connection for some reason I can't figure out (seems like a 2 to 3 hour delay from when it was last "fixed") The XP is sharing an Internet connection with a cable modem. All the other computers continue to see each other and the Internet when the XP drops out of the LAN even though the Internet connection is through the XP. I have to continuously run the network setup wizard on the XP unit in order to get it back on the LAN. Ughhhhh! I thought the problem was related to the XP machine going to sleep, but that is not the case. Someone help us! --Brett [Reply or follow-up to this message] If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Monday, October 18, 2004 at 10:13 am Posted by Lam Jam (1 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 12:40 pm 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 6:28 pm Posted by vida (1 messages posted) I am having a problem with my XP from Dell (as mentioned above in previous posts) dropping off of the network. I was focussing on my switch and cable integrity until reading these posts, makes me wonder if Dell or Win XP are the culprit. What type of system is yours? My connection seems to reestablish with unplugging and replugging the data jack from the cable booster. On Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 12:40 pm, Tom Borden wrote: >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 > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 7:26 am Posted by Barry Howarth (1 messages posted) 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? On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 6:28 pm, vida wrote: >I am having a problem with my XP from Dell (as mentioned above in previous posts) >dropping off of the network. I was focussing on my switch and cable integrity until >reading these posts, makes me wonder if Dell or Win XP are the culprit. What type >of system is yours? My connection seems to reestablish with unplugging and replugging >the data jack from the cable booster. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 2:24 pm 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? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 6:13 am Posted by Anthony (1 messages posted) I am experiencing the same problem with a home built machine (not Dell). I have an ASUS P4P800E motherboard with an on-board Marvell Yukon Gigabit 10/100/1000 adapter. Connecting through a LinkSys 4-port BEFSR41 to the Surfboard 5100. At times, I could disable and renable the marvell driver, but this does not always work. I reset the modem, and set the router back to its initiall settings (auto IP and auto DNS). I even installed a cheap 3Com 10/100 NIC to see if this was the problem, but it was not the answer. If I find anything I will post it here - please do the same. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 7:14 am Posted by David (2 messages posted) Anthony, I had a bit of luck last night. I found some posts out on the Dell discussion board and they had a possible fix. I tried it and after 15 hours of use I have had NO dropped connections. I found a person that posted a situation almost exactly the same as mine and then one of the senior posters put out this as a solution: "Go to your Network connection, Properties, Authentication tab and uncheck IEEE authentication. Sometimes this gets checked when you update. Nothing should be checked on that tab." I tried the very simple solution and it seems to have solved the problem in my situation. You might want to give it a try and see what happens. It had no other ill effects on working with the network with this Dell Desktop machine. Now I have to admit my laptop has this checkbox checked and has never dropped a connection, go figure. Good Luck and hope this helps you also. David On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 6:13 am, Anthony wrote: >I am experiencing the same problem with a home built machine (not Dell). I have >an ASUS P4P800E motherboard with an on-board Marvell Yukon Gigabit 10/100/1000 adapter. > Connecting through a LinkSys 4-port BEFSR41 to the Surfboard 5100. At times, I >could disable and renable the marvell driver, but this does not always work. I reset >the modem, and set the router back to its initiall settings (auto IP and auto DNS). > I even installed a cheap 3Com 10/100 NIC to see if this was the problem, but it >was not the answer. If I find anything I will post it here - please do the same. >Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 11:05 pm Posted by HJam72 (43 messages posted) I was having a problem very similar to this, except that I use a STAND ALONE PC with cable modem. I was losing my connection every 5 or 10 minutes and could only get it back by not attempting to run any browser or update anything for at least five minutes. It felt very much like a virus, so I scanned with AVG free and found nothing. I ran Spybot, Ad-Aware, etc., etc. and found nothing. I say that because, after all of that, I installed my old Norton AntiVirus that I haven't used in several months and it found A KEYLOGGER NAMED Spyware.ABCKeylogger. The actually file was named JPG.Utils.dll and was in the System 32 folder. Maybe that will help some of you to check that folder for it. I don't exactly why it was cutting off my connection, unless maybe the router firewall was blocking it out along with everything else??? Anyway, since deleting it I've had a constant good connection for about 4 hrs. now. On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 7:14 am, David wrote: >Anthony, >I had a bit of luck last night. I found some posts out on the Dell discussion board >and they had a possible fix. I tried it and after 15 hours of use I have had NO dropped >connections. I found a person that posted a situation almost exactly the same as >mine and then one of the senior posters put out this as a solution: > > "Go to your Network connection, Properties, Authentication tab and uncheck IEEE >authentication. Sometimes this gets checked when you update. Nothing should be checked >on that tab." > >I tried the very simple solution and it seems to have solved the problem in my situation. >You might want to give it a try and see what happens. It had no other ill effects >on working with the network with this Dell Desktop machine. Now I have to admit >my laptop has this checkbox checked and has never dropped a connection, go figure. > >Good Luck and hope this helps you also. > >David > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Monday, June 20, 2005 at 3:59 pm Posted by john (1 messages posted) I went through this and tried all the things I read on the internet. Finally, I tried enabling all the JAVA boxes in control panel/interenet properties/advanced and don't seem to have any more problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 5:07 pm Posted by adam (1 messages posted) My wireless connection is dropping out randomly...its on homade PC with ASUS K8V MB, linksys wireless pci card with speed booster, running on xp pro SP2. The router is a linksys router w speed booster also. anybody help me? On Monday, June 20, 2005 at 3:59 pm, john wrote: > >I went through this and tried all the things I read on the internet. Finally, I >tried enabling all the JAVA boxes in control panel/interenet properties/advanced >and don't seem to have any more problems. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 10:23 pm Posted by Billbo (1 messages posted) All, I experienced a very similar situation which leads me to believe it is purely a Windows XP __HOME__ issue. I have an HP PC connected to a Netgear Swich/Access Point running Zone Alarm (free version). Originally, I installed XP Pro and never had any issues. I recently found a need (for testing) to wipe the computer clean and install XP Home. After installing XP Home (with all of the same hardware and 3rd party software), I found that every few hours the computer just could not connect to the internet. I did not receive any message or indication such as "A Network Cable is Unplugged." Strangely, the IP address was still good and the router was functioning properly. I could connect to the internet on a laptop through the router/access point without issue. Restarting the router did not help nor did releasing and renewing the IP address from the afflicted desktop. The only viable solution I ever found was to restart the machine (very annoying). I just tried the solution mentioned by Lam Jam and David and will reply again in a few days with an update. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 8:15 pm Posted by Karn (2 messages posted) Anthony, i have the same setup (and obviously the same problem): home built machine with -ASUS P4P800-E Delux motherboard -Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (driver version 8.41.1.3) but i'm on a D-link router and a motorola cable modem (Comcast). but like James Carter's note above, my computer doesn't notify me that a connection is lost until I try to get on the internet. and it usually dies around that time range too. though i can disable/re-enble my (LAN) connection, and that always fixes it. the main problem for me is that when i'm on the road, i can't "fix" this remotely if the computer loses the internet connection. the weird part is, i have another computer connected to the same router. but that one doesn't have any problem what so ever. also, i tried what David did: "Go to your Network connection, Properties, Authentication tab and uncheck IEEE authentication. Sometimes this gets checked when you update. Nothing should be checked on that tab." but that didn't work. =\ i'll post something if i find out anything. good luck people! karn On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 6:13 am, Anthony wrote: >I am experiencing the same problem with a home built machine (not Dell). I have >an ASUS P4P800E motherboard with an on-board Marvell Yukon Gigabit 10/100/1000 adapter. > Connecting through a LinkSys 4-port BEFSR41 to the Surfboard 5100. At times, I >could disable and renable the marvell driver, but this does not always work. I reset >the modem, and set the router back to its initiall settings (auto IP and auto DNS). > I even installed a cheap 3Com 10/100 NIC to see if this was the problem, but it >was not the answer. If I find anything I will post it here - please do the same. >Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 3:03 am Posted by Jason (2 messages posted) I have a workaround until this problem is solved. Leave your email client on and allow it to check for email every 5 minutes. This will allow you to maintain your connection. Obviously, whatever is causing this problem for so many is apparently related to the OS's inability to "keep alive" a broadband connection beyond the Local Area Network. Clean, recent install of XPsp2 Home Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 Router Motorola SB4200 Surfboard Zone Alarm Pro Cheers- -Jason [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 2:31 pm Posted by Karn (2 messages posted) that didn't work =( another thing i noticed: it seems like my connection might be limited by the amount of data transfered. when i'm downloading at really fast speed (~100 kB/s), the connection goes out within a couple of hours. but if the download speed is slow (~10 kB/s), then the connection eventually dies after about a day or so. karn On Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 3:03 am, Jason wrote: >I have a workaround until this problem is solved. >Leave your email client on and allow it to check for email every 5 minutes. This >will allow you to maintain your connection. > >Obviously, whatever is causing this problem for so many is apparently related to >the OS's inability to "keep alive" a broadband connection beyond the Local Area Network. > >Clean, recent install of XPsp2 Home >Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 Router >Motorola SB4200 Surfboard >Zone Alarm Pro > >Cheers- >-Jason [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:35 am Posted by Jason (2 messages posted) ...and your ISP Help or NOC (Network Operations Center) is no help to you? On Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 2:31 pm, Karn wrote: >that didn't work =( >karn [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 3:29 pm Posted by Mark (1 messages posted) Hey all, i found my problem to be fixed when i installed TCP/IP Version 6 and the Network Monitor driver, both of which can be installed in the properties Tab of your network card. Good luck On Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 3:03 am, Jason wrote: >I have a workaround until this problem is solved. >Leave your email client on and allow it to check for email every 5 minutes. This >will allow you to maintain your connection. > >Obviously, whatever is causing this problem for so many is apparently related to >the OS's inability to "keep alive" a broadband connection beyond the Local Area Network. > >Clean, recent install of XPsp2 Home >Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 Router >Motorola SB4200 Surfboard >Zone Alarm Pro > >Cheers- >-Jason [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 1:50 pm Posted by Steve (1 messages posted) Hi i have a LINKSYS WAG354-G Home DSL thingy. I want to be able to split my broadband internet connection between my home PC (eMachines) and a laptop. So that it can be used around the house. The problem i have, is that the connection on the laptop drops every few minutes? I am relatively new to networking. Does anyone have any suggestions for what i could do? Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 8:15 pm Posted by Rajesh Sharma (1 messages posted) I have Dell/Windows 2000 professional. My internet connection was Ok for a year until I moved to a new place. Now the connection drops "Nework Cable is unplugged" in about a minute. It works fine if I connect directly to cable model without going through the Lynksis router. When I use the router the wireless connection works fine,but the wired connections keeps dropping. Struggled for 6 months with almost everything but no luck. Droping the rate to 10MBPS, changing all the cables didn't help! Really frustrated now.. Any help to resolve will be appreciated. Thanks, On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 1:50 pm, Steve wrote: >Hi i have a LINKSYS WAG354-G Home DSL thingy. I want to be able to split my broadband >internet connection between my home PC (eMachines) and a laptop. So that it can >be used around the house. The problem i have, is that the connection on the laptop >drops every few minutes? I am relatively new to networking. Does anyone have any >suggestions for what i could do? > >Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 11:35 am Posted by Jesse (1 messages posted) I just went in to my control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and stopped the Wireless Zero Configuration process. I also changed it to a manual startup. So far no drops, I'm not sure what functionality I am losing though. My wireless connection here at home is working fine without it. Jesse 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 6:54 am Posted by Ed (1 messages posted) I'm having identical problem described above, but am not running WEP so 802.11 Authentication is disabled by default, can't "uncheck" it. Running latest version of XP/SP2 as well. I've seen many forums suggesting this may be related to Wireless Zero Config and also potentially to use of 2.4Mhz portable phones in the house. Has anyone seen a definitive explanation or fix to this problem? PS--I know tons of folks running 802.11 wireless LANs who have never heard of this, so there's something unique to our configurations causing it. Just wondering what it might be.... Ed On Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 11:35 am, Jesse wrote: >I just went in to my control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and stopped >the Wireless Zero Configuration process. I also changed it to a manual startup. > So far no drops, I'm not sure what functionality I am losing though. My wireless >connection here at home is working fine without it. > >Jesse > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 9:04 am Posted by Xavier Castillo (1 messages posted) Hello David, I read your advice. But I cannot find the "Authentication tab" in the properties of the network connection. There are only 2 tabs there, "General" and "Advanced options". I'm using Windows XP SP2. I have another question. Why should I modify the network connection? I ask this because I have a standalone PC using a dial-up connection, so I suppose the change should be in the "dial-up connection". Thanks in advance. Xavier Castillo. On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 7:14 am, David wrote: >Anthony, >I had a bit of luck last night. I found some posts out on the Dell discussion board >and they had a possible fix. I tried it and after 15 hours of use I have had NO dropped >connections. I found a person that posted a situation almost exactly the same as >mine and then one of the senior posters put out this as a solution: > > "Go to your Network connection, Properties, Authentication tab and uncheck IEEE >authentication. Sometimes this gets checked when you update. Nothing should be checked >on that tab." > >I tried the very simple solution and it seems to have solved the problem in my situation. >You might want to give it a try and see what happens. It had no other ill effects >on working with the network with this Dell Desktop machine. Now I have to admit >my laptop has this checkbox checked and has never dropped a connection, go figure. > >Good Luck and hope this helps you also. > >David > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 11:50 am Posted by Kelvin (1 messages posted) Thanks Mark, I had been trying to sort this out for ages. Your tip worked!! On Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 3:29 pm, Mark wrote: >Hey all, i found my problem to be fixed when i installed TCP/IP Version 6 and the >Network Monitor driver, both of which can be installed in the properties Tab of your >network card. > >Good luck > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 4:07 pm Posted by Fred Malott (1 messages posted) I've had the exact same problem as well as well, (different DELL model and wireless DSL is a Linksys) but exact same symptoms. After much experimentation (and to my chagrin) I found simply shutting down ZoneAlarm fixes the problem, (AVG and MS spyware still running) - interestingly I never had the problem with win2K and ZoneAlarm, which is why I didn't suspect it, only when I upgraded (clean install) wXP did I start to have that infuriating connection dropping problem. Gonnamiss ZA but I'm hopeful the issue will get addressed Hope that helps someone //************ // On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:48 am, James Carter wrote: >I have the exact same problem as well, and I thought it was just me. I have a Dell >Dimension 8100 running Windows XP Home, SP1, version 2002. This problem started >after I got my cable modem. It's a Motorola Surfboard, the newer version, but the >problem happened with my old Surfboard modem, too. My router is a Netgear RP614, >4 port. I am running AVG antivirus and Zone Alarm's free firewall. > >It's maddening. Like it was mentioned above, my connection will go anywhere between >30 minutes to 3 hours, sometimes more, and it isn't based on activity level. One >thing that is slightly different - I do not get a message about my network cable >being unplugged. There's actually no indication that a connection is lost until >I try to get on the internet. > >I also have an old AMD machine running Win98 hooked up - and this is the best part >- it does NOT loose it's connection. I find it suspicious that previous posts have >had XP on Dell machines, and this is not a Dell problem? > >I'm currently doing some internet research on this, and I will definitely post here >if I find anything new. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 9:55 pm Posted by Sreev (1 messages posted) I had the same problem and I tried everything on this site and many other sites but it did not work.Here's my situation.I have netgear FWG114P with WPA-PSK enabled.My connection used to work fine everytime i reset the WiFi button but would drop every few seconds and would refuse to connect until another reset.I tried connecting to a WiFi without any security and it worked.I was scrathing my head to figure out why because my other laptop was perfectly fine with the same settings.Finally I added this MAC to static ip route and then tried Eureka!! it works now!! and connection did not drop.For the life of me I could not figure out why this was not working with DHCP.Anyway one more fix you can try. Good luck. 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 12:35 pm Posted by david (1 messages posted) for anyone running windows XP with zone alarm pro who's internet connection dies after being idle for a while, try this: for an immediate reconnection to internet, ping either the ip address of your router, or the internet name of a known website (for example ping www.google.com) then restart your internet explorer or whatever internet programme you use. for a long term workaround, go into zone alarm and enter an ip range in the trusted zone corresponding to the ip address of your router. for example if the ip address of your router is 192.168.1.2 then add the range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255 to the trusted zone. another example, if your router's ip address is x.x.x.5 the add the range x.x.x.1 - x.x.x.255 to the trusted zone. thiis works for me. my SSID is hidden and i'm using WPA encryption and users can only log onto my router using the encryption code so i reckon i'm safe allowing such a big ip range to the trusted zone. good luck. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Monday, October 2, 2006 at 9:31 am Posted by JTor (3 messages posted) So far I have read about wireless problems. I have a home made PC running xp pro sp1 no wireless nothing, i use a cable modem and still I get drpopped.... On Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 12:35 pm, david wrote: > >for anyone running windows XP with zone alarm pro who's internet connection dies >after being idle for a while, try this: > >for an immediate reconnection to internet, ping either the ip address of your router, >or the internet name of a known website (for example ping www.google.com) >then restart your internet explorer or whatever internet programme you use. > >for a long term workaround, go into zone alarm and enter an ip range in the trusted >zone corresponding to the ip address of your router. for example if the ip address >of your router is 192.168.1.2 then add the range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255 to >the trusted zone. another example, if your router's ip address is x.x.x.5 the add >the range x.x.x.1 - x.x.x.255 to the trusted zone. > >thiis works for me. my SSID is hidden and i'm using WPA encryption and users can >only log onto my router using the encryption code so i reckon i'm safe allowing such >a big ip range to the trusted zone. > >good luck. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Monday, May 14, 2007 at 2:05 pm Posted by carol (1 messages posted) I bought a Dell desktop computer last fall and the same thing keeps happening to me. i updated the intel pro/100 v NIC drivers and now it is worse than ever. I can not help but think that Dell dumped these lemons on the market at a discount. Very Frustrating! I have gathered all the hints from this list and I will apply them one by one to see if I can overcome this dilema On Monday, October 2, 2006 at 9:31 am, JTor wrote: >So far I have read about wireless problems. >I have a home made PC running xp pro sp1 >no wireless nothing, i use a cable modem and still I get drpopped.... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 11:26 pm Posted by Bob N (1 messages posted) Same problem on two computers. Intermittent disconnects. Win XP SP2. Dial-up modems, no network. Been happening for past 5 months. Trying lowering the buffer settings as suggested elswhere on the net. Totally frustrating. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 2:46 pm Posted by notspace (2 messages posted) This has been and off and on problem for me for the last 5 years. I read something in another forum about 'network shock' but I could not find anything else about that term anywhere else. It seems, for me at least, that this almost always occurs when I have a lot of back and forth traffic within my home network. For example: 1. If i am browsing a drive on my lan in thumbnail mode. 2. If i am updating my mp3 library on my laptop with files remotely stored on my lan. I have not been able to figure this out, just like it seems no one else here has been. I have not been ablt to find a definitive answer through all my searches, However, it did stop here for quite a long time, until i had to do a reinstall. Then it started back up again, so all i can figure is that I made SOME change SOMEWHERE that resolved it that I will never be able to figure out. HAha. It is interesting throgh, that reading these posts the common thread seems to be that we all are using a linksys befsr41 or the equivalent linksys wireless. thoughts? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 9:58 am Posted by Glen Taylor (4 messages posted) Here is what works for me: Instead of using a computer name \\ComputerName\Folder eg: \\Dell1150\Temp I use \\ComputerIPaddress\Folder eg: \\192.168.0.2\Temp Even after one of the computers wakes up from a sleep mode I can always reconnect. On Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 2:46 pm, notspace wrote: >This has been and off and on problem for me for the last 5 years. >I read something in another forum about 'network shock' but I could not find anything >else about that term anywhere else. > >It seems, for me at least, that this almost always occurs when I have a lot of back >and forth traffic within my home network. For example: > >1. If i am browsing a drive on my lan in thumbnail mode. >2. If i am updating my mp3 library on my laptop with files remotely stored on my >lan. > >I have not been able to figure this out, just like it seems no one else here has >been. I have not been ablt to find a definitive answer through all my searches, > >However, it did stop here for quite a long time, until i had to do a reinstall. Then >it started back up again, so all i can figure is that I made SOME change SOMEWHERE >that resolved it that I will never be able to figure out. HAha. > >It is interesting throgh, that reading these posts the common thread seems to be >that we all are using a linksys befsr41 or the equivalent linksys wireless. > >thoughts? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 5:38 am Posted by Chirag Desai (1 messages posted) If you have Trend Micro Virusscan/Firewall installed, try disabling/uninstalling 'Trend Micro Common Firewall Driver' in your Local Area Connection Properties. On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 4:13 pm, B.C. wrote: >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Monday, July 30, 2007 at 5:20 am Posted by BobK (1 messages posted) My problem with dropped connections started several weeks ago. Linksys Befsr81 router, Motorola cable modem, with TrendMicro anti-virus. Three other computers on the same router do not lose connection - only ol' reliable (or used to be) win98SE machine used only for email. All others XP. Only configuration/software changes were installation of anti-virus updates. Disabled TrendMicro. Only difference was faster rendering of web pages until the connection was lost - about 20 minutes. Even tried going back to IE instead of Firefox. Whatever is causing the connection to drop doesn't care which browser. On Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 5:38 am, Chirag Desai wrote: >If you have Trend Micro Virusscan/Firewall installed, try disabling/uninstalling >'Trend Micro Common Firewall Driver' in your Local Area Connection Properties. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: DISCONNECTION at random Friday, June 13, 2008 at 4:08 am Posted by IRRITATION (1 messages posted) This problem has been irritating me for 1 year, everytime i connect to the internet. It disconnects after an hour or so. Personally I find it really annoying and i feel like thrashing my router. Fridays are worse, disconnection every 3-5 mins. I'm fond of online games and this problem is really getting on my nerves. I tried everything from repairing the connection to cleaning out my laptop but the problem never goes away... Its DRIVING ME NUTS!!! Anybody got a really good suggestion? I use LAN. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 9:57 pm Posted by notspace (2 messages posted) I think i may have figured this out. Finally. I have been plagued by this problem for years. I have written batch files to ping that are then scheduled to run every x minutes to and then to disable and enable local network connection (to reset when it fails) I have run net checkers that check every 1 minute and then run a batch file to enable/disable the same way. I have searched and searched. Finally tonight I think I have resolved the issue. ...This doesnt mean it will help anyone else out there, but it has fixed it, finally, and thoroughly for me. This may be a direct indication as to how many people out there have disabled QOS and its related service on their xp machines. Simply put, I re-enabled the binding to QOS in my TCPIP propertied dialogue and re-enabled and set auto start the related QOS service. XP SP2. I have also re enabled both volume shadow copy services (although it dont think those were the culprit.. I will run a test and kill each service and protocol individually and wait for it to die again to see which one or lack thereof causes the issue.) I am now blissfully transferring files across my home network. Scanning and sharing my media library from my 2 1tb drives on my XP box to my laptop. Watching video on those same drives overnet on my laptop. Jesus. If i would have known it was this simple, and it was something I had caused myself by disabling these things that everyone out there commonly says need to be killed.... hope this helps. Someone with this same problem please try it and post back here if it helps or resolves. I had read an article somewhere recently about network collisions and lockup, and it seems either the QOS or the Volume shadow copy things help mitigate that issue. Peace. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:48 pm Posted by Trevor (1 messages posted) Thanks so much. This suggestion also works with Vista too. I had been trying everything to stay online, disabling the 802.1x as you suggested has kept me online now without issues. Thanks!! 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum