Valhalla Legends Forums Archive | General Discussion | Strange Internet Issue

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Mr. Neo
On my computer, there is a really strange thing that happens frequently.  I have cable internet and am running Windows XP with SP2 installed.  About once or twice an hour (sometimes every few minutes), the default gateway on the connection just drops.  By drops, I mean it disappears.  When this happens, nothing internet related works and is only solved by doing a release-renew.

I have no problem with this happening when using Fedora.  This has been happening for the past few years, but recently it has gotten much worse.  Any ideas as to what is causing this issue, or even steps to remedy it?
July 20, 2005, 5:41 PM
CrAz3D
POssibly too many cablesplitters.  You may be overloading your cable & then the internet flashes (that's what our comcast guy told me when ours was doing this)
July 20, 2005, 5:45 PM
Myndfyr
I've had that issue in Windows XP SP2.  Well, not quite -- it normally reconnected automatically.  It's weird.  I reinstalled and it worked.  *shrug*
July 20, 2005, 10:03 PM
Mr. Neo
Well at least it sounds somewhat normal.  It's been ~4 years since a format, so that is a definate possibility at this point. 
July 20, 2005, 11:55 PM
Myndfyr
I knew it wasn't a driver issue when it happened after I changed cards.
July 21, 2005, 1:44 AM

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