intermittent internet connection

My problem ended up being fixed by the dsl company replacing my Speedstream
4100 dsl modem with a 2Wire modem. Everything else from RTU change, card
change in RTU and router changed helped in ways that only made it SEEM like
progress.

I guess some modems just don't play well at some locations. The symptoms are
so freaking misleading.. almost 2 months of troubleshooting to fix that
problem. Hope it helps!

You can also try this solution:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1744/...ary_dns_server

There is an issue with the routers/modems not being compatible with the
Vista TCP feature.

HTH

"defektiv" wrote:

> My problem ended up being fixed by the dsl company replacing my Speedstream
> 4100 dsl modem with a 2Wire modem. Everything else from RTU change, card
> change in RTU and router changed helped in ways that only made it SEEM like
> progress.
>
> I guess some modems just don't play well at some locations. The symptoms are
> so freaking misleading.. almost 2 months of troubleshooting to fix that
> problem. Hope it helps!

I also have a similar problem, Have got Home Premium installed with 2 network
cards, Internet (public) and Local (private)

Browsing and network completely fine on my Internet connection, I stream
video and everything just fine
On my Local Connection, everything used to work fine but now I struggle with
everything, my PC sitting next to it, sometimes works sometimes doesn't, very
intermittent, web browsing the same, same with streaming, what figures?
Even tried upgrading the memory, no luck, rembooting makes no difference.

Any answers to this?
I'm going to try the 2 new updates for performance and reliability to see if
that helps.


Rgds
Darkside
http://thegamedevspace.spaces.msn.com/


"Kevin" wrote:

> I finally thought I solved all my network problems out and now I find that I
> have intermittent internet connection on my Vista machine. Sometimes it
> connects and sometimes I have to reboot or even shut down and then it works
> again. Please help!!!

Go to Device Manager, Network Adapters, if you have NVIDIA nForce Networking
Controller, right click for properties, select Power Management and disable
power managment, then if you have a personal firewall (I have Norton) disable
it. By the way, if you know which setting in Norton Personal Firewall to
configure to "allow" so that this works, let me know! I was getting only
limited access even though connection was fine signal was strong!

"defektiv" wrote:

> same problem.
>
> Basically, my network connection will drop sometimes. I try to ping the DNS
> server and get and error code 1231. Resetting the DSL modem or computer will
> sometimes bring the connection back and the ping will start coming back at
> around 10ms then drop again a few seconds later.
>
> As a fix, I have a laptop sitting nearby with XP Professional running. If I
> plug the DSL modem into the laptop and reset the modem then the ping to the
> DNS server will return and stay. Then plugging the DSL modem back into the
> Vista machine will restore the connection just like nothing was ever wrong.
>
> I've checked network settings between both computers and they match, and
> then there is all the extra settings on my Vista machine. I can repeat the
> network drop every single time by logging into Everquest II and opening all
> the bags in my bank inventory at once. About 5% of the items in the bags will
> load then the connection drops. Almost every single time. The only time it
> will not is right after I call AT&T and have them run a line test, which will
> usually restore a crashed connection as well.
>
> AMD X2 5600+
> Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (using onboard network)
> 2GB OCZ PC6400 DDR2
> BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC
> Vista Home Premium 64-bit
>
> World of Warcraft currently does the same thing after every patch. Will only
> stop when I re-install. all sharing, power management, etc is off. AT&T tech
> was here the other day and couldn't figure out what was going on either.
>
> truly annoying.

Eventually found the problem, it's down to ICS itself.

For now I've disabled sharing my internet connection as with it on, you just
can not access the PC over the second connection, making ICS worse that
useless at the moment.

hopefully SP 1 will address this problem, but for now the best i can say is
dont Share you internet connection if you need to access your pc over the
network from other machines.

Here's hoping
--
Rgds
Darkside
http://thegamedevspace.spaces.msn.com/


"Darkside (Simon Jackson)" wrote:

> I also have a similar problem, Have got Home Premium installed with 2 network
> cards, Internet (public) and Local (private)
>
> Browsing and network completely fine on my Internet connection, I stream
> video and everything just fine
> On my Local Connection, everything used to work fine but now I struggle with
> everything, my PC sitting next to it, sometimes works sometimes doesn't, very
> intermittent, web browsing the same, same with streaming, what figures?
> Even tried upgrading the memory, no luck, rembooting makes no difference.
>
> Any answers to this?
> I'm going to try the 2 new updates for performance and reliability to see if
> that helps.
>
>
> Rgds
> Darkside
> http://thegamedevspace.spaces.msn.com/
>
>
> "Kevin" wrote:
>
> > I finally thought I solved all my network problems out and now I find that I
> > have intermittent internet connection on my Vista machine. Sometimes it
> > connects and sometimes I have to reboot or even shut down and then it works
> > again. Please help!!!

[cxteach]

I am having the same issue on the wireless side. Internet connects fine with a LAN, but drops intermittently with wireless.
This pc worked fine with At&T for 3 years. I changed accounts and got new hardware from AT&T and now I have random drop problems. AT&T says the line is fine and they have swapped out the gateway (router) twice . I am on a dell pc with XP. It keeps losing the IP address. any ideas?