furrepanther
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Okay. Let me describe the problem, with question(s) at the bottom. Note my Area-51 (original) system has two ethernet ports.
Sometimes the internet connection drops, and Windows 10 shows no connection to the internet.
Anyway, my questions are:
Has anyone out there encountered this, or does it sound familiar from somewhere else?
Many, many thanks in advance. And, before I forget, Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!!
Sometimes the internet connection drops, and Windows 10 shows no connection to the internet.
- Sometimes this is resolved by disabling and re-enabling the adapter.
- Sometimes it's stubborn, can't be resolved with a reboot, and I end up unplugging the ethernet cable and plugging it into a different port. This will usually work around whatever this problem is. When it doesn't, I switch ethernet ports, which always seems to help recover from the previous ethernet port's apparent problem.
- Sooner or later, the adapter currently in use will go through this set of issues until it freezes up hard, which causes the above resolution steps to be repeated.
Anyway, my questions are:
1. Is this a known problem of some kind with the first generation Area-51s?
2. If not, does this sound like a malfunction, or a problem with the cable internet provider (Cox)?
My personal guess is that the random drops are sometimes causing data corruption and, with the right bad data and an older ethernet adapter, said bad data causes a corruption that will sometimes require a reboot and some finagling to work around, therefore an ISP issue.Has anyone out there encountered this, or does it sound familiar from somewhere else?
Many, many thanks in advance. And, before I forget, Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!!
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