brn2bhrny1 Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Here is how my home network is set up: Cable modem is connected to PC1, PC1 has two ethernet cards and the first one receives the internet from the modem and the second one goes to a switch. PC2, PC3, and PC4 are all connected to the switch and everything is working fine on those computers for the most part. All PC's running Windows XP Professional. I am on one of the networked PC's and every couple of hours my internet cuts out for about 2 seconds. Anyone have an idea what is causing this? It's not even a wireless network, cat5 all around. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted July 31, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 31, 2003 Here is how my home network is set up: Cable modem is connected to PC1, PC1 has two ethernet cards and the first one receives the internet from the modem and the second one goes to a switch. PC2, PC3, and PC4 are all connected to the switch and everything is working fine on those computers for the most part. All PC's running Windows XP Professional. I am on one of the networked PC's and every couple of hours my internet cuts out for about 2 seconds. Anyone have an idea what is causing this? It's not even a wireless network, cat5 all around. :wacko: My advice is to replace the switch and ICS with a $50 4 port router. It's faster, less complicated and you don't need to keep PC1 on to access the internet from the other 'puters. ICS sucks. Even if you weren't having this two second delay then you'll find that ICS needs a reboot every couple of weeks or it'll get all confused. I just don't think it's that stable. For cheap and dirty get a Dlink DI-604. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I am experiencing something very similar. My setup is similar to yours, I have one machine sharing a cable Internet connection with ICS, I then have a computer that is connected to that computer that has a bridge set up between two NICS that allows my laptop to connect to it and then to the Internet. The laptop randomly will loose the Internet connection for about 20 seconds but still has access to the rest of the internal network. The only time I have noticed it though is when I'm playing Counter-Strike but I'm sure that's just coincidence. I used to get this error in the Event Viewer; Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address ------------. The following error occurred: The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server. but I don't anymore so that might not have had anything to do with it. Do you get any errors in your Event Viewer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 moved to networking support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brn2bhrny1 Posted August 2, 2003 Author Share Posted August 2, 2003 where is the eventviewer im unfamiliar with that. but the "local area connection disconnected" symbol shows up on my taskbar for the 2 seconds i lose my connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Ah, then I don't think we have the same problem. My icon never changes. Control Panel-->Admin Tools-->Event Viewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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