I recently suffered through a similar problem. I screamed at Comcast insisting that it was my cable connection at the pole or coming into the house. They said no. Finally the connection went completely but returned when I hooked my laptop directly to the cable modem. Turned out the LinkSys cable router/switch was losing the WAN (cable) connection even though the LAN part of the thing still worked fine. Replaced it (it was non-wireless - I had a wireless access point connected to it) with a LinkSys WRT54G and all has been working fine since......
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlene Coldwell Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:04 AM To: PCWorks Subject: PCWorks: Intermittent internet connection Help! This is making me crazy! I have a three PC wired network, all running xp. Connected to it is an access point for a 4 PC wireless network for internet connection only. this setup has been working flawlessly for nearly a year now. A few days ago, our internet connection became very erratic, but no problems whatsoever with the network connection. Of course I have called our provider (Comcast) and they report no problems. The other problem I had was that one of the folks on my wired network had a few "bugs" on his system, which I found (coincidentally?) on the same day we started having connectivity problems. His machine was infected with the following: Exploit-ByteVerify (Trojan) Adware-SearchAid (potentially unwanted program) Downloader-IZ (trojan)aka Troj/Small-HG StartPage-BN (Trojan) All of these were reported by McAfee Antivirus. After a very good blessing out, I got on his machine and cleaned everything out, including editing and deletion of some registry entries, deleting files and running cw shredder in safe mode. MacAfee appeared to clean the rest. Sooo..now my question is how likely is it that he "bugs" and the connectivity problems are related? I had a brand new in the box router that I replaced the old one with, so I don't think that is the problem. I have hooked the main PC up directly to the cable modem and was able to get online...but that does not seem to prove anything because I am able to get online thru the router as well...but it is very intermittent. I have not been able to test the direct cable modem hook-up long enough to see if it will get erratic or not. I need some help, suggestions, support..anything at this point :-) ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
