On 02/14/2011 06:12 AM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: > For a while now, I've been having an issue with an Ethernet connection. The > PC is a 64-bit system, purchased new 15 months ago, so I still consider it > new. :) > > After being online for a while, the connection "drops", this occurs with both > Windows Vista (32-bit, pre-installed when I bought it) and 64-bit Ubuntu, > with both SeaMonkey and Firefox with both OS'. > > When this occurs, if I am calling up a page, the browser will display > "Looking for www.blu.org..." (for example) and just sit there. If I then > open two new tabs, one to call up the modem (Arris Touchstone telephony > modem) and the other to call up the router (the new Netgear I purchased), > same thing, no responses, but the "Looking for..." does not appear at the > time on the two new tabs that were opened for the router and modem. > > While the browser is sitting there doing nothing, I would then open a console > window. When I ping both the router and modem separately, they both respond. > This tells me that the connections between the PC and the modem, are working > correctly and I am not "losing" the connection up to the modem, which could > also mean that there was nothing wrong with the Linksys router that the > Netgear replaced. > > While this was occuring last night, I also tried to ping the primary Comcast > DNS that was assigned and on two separate attempts, there was considerable > packet loss from it (both exceeded 50%) with one ping response not initially > displaying until the 11th attempt. Yet the ping responses from the router > and modem were perfect, no losses. > > I am now convinced that the problem is not the PC, not the Ethernet cable > (tried two different cables) and not the router or modem either. I have also > checked the cable connections going from the modem to the splitter, all is > well with that and also replaced the short Ethernet cable running between the > router and modem. > > One thought is that it would be the software (browsers) itself, however this > happens with both operating systems and two different browsers. > > Is there any explanation for what seems to be happening?
It sounds to me like it's losing DNS, not connectivity. Try accessing a website via IP address instead of domain name next time this happens. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
