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LAN sometimes works and sometimes doesn't: IP problem?
I have a little network at home, with the main internet access in the living room (cable, not wireless) and a router for the PC in my study.
For years I've had an internet provider that required me to use certain IP addresses, assigned to me by that provider. It worked perfectly fine all the time.
Now, for several reasons, I have a new provider. This one requires auto detection for the IP address (or whatever it is called in English, "Automatisch beziehen" in German). And now I often have connection problems on the PC in my study, which is connected via router. Then I can't access the internet. Windows shows me my usual connection which is called Network 2 and tells me it has no connection, and it also shows me a new Unidentified Network which it obviously created by itself which also has no connection.
Unplugging and re-plugging the network cable doesn't help; Windows does a new network scan then but the problems remain. I have to re-boot, sometimes even two or three times, and then all of a sudden the Unidentified Network is gone and my regular Network 2 is working again.
I got a brand new PC with a fresh and clean Windows installation and I'm having exactly the same problems with this machine as I did with the old one.
Does anybody have any suggestions for me?