Internet Connection Dropping Out.

[Digital Life]

Just to confirm it's DNS Client. Someone should tell the developers of SpyBot about this.



Get some rest and get better

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Yes I do mean the cable connection on the I/O panel on your motherboard.
My mother has a orange 'on' light and a 'blinking' yellow light when downloading.

Jack

Whoa! Your mother has a solid orange light and a blinking yellow light? How...uh...interesting. I know roughly how old you are so your mother must be pushing, if not over, a hundred! Wow!


Sorry! I was briefly looking back at this thread to see if something might click. Obviously, my one functioning brain cell is still too scrambled by my sinuses to be of any use if this is what I'm coming away with (yes, I know you meant motherboard). Pardon me while I take a few days to climb out of the rabbit hole.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Well, my internet just dropped out and I had to reboot to get it back.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It just happened again. the otherwise welcome rains we have been getting have been driving me nuts so I'm still not up to tackling this miserable misbegotten mess. I'm going back to bed.

 

[Digital Life]

Have you tried setting your ISP's router to bridge mode, Some will let you some will not but I would suspect that your ISP gave you a crappy router.

I would not leave your network setup this way for more than a day or 2 and if you don't have any problems you will need to get a better router off your ISP or buy your own.

 

[samuria]

Did you confirm you dont have a proxy set in Firefox or IE as that can do it.Next time it drops open a cmd prompt then type

tracert 194.119.131.66

ping 194.119.131.66

It should show as before infact its not dropped as it still gets out post results of tracert

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Have you tried setting your ISP's router to bridge mode, Some will let you some will not but I would suspect that your ISP gave you a crappy router.

I would not leave your network setup this way for more than a day or 2 and if you don't have any problems you will need to get a better router off your ISP or buy your own.

The router and modem are my own. Go back to my first post to see their specs. The modem is brand new but the previous one had the same problem so the modem is not the issue. Again, I had the same problem when I bypassed the router so it isn't to blame.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Did you confirm you dont have a proxy set in Firefox or IE as that can do it.Next time it drops open a cmd prompt then type

tracert 194.119.131.66

ping 194.119.131.66

It should show as before infact its not dropped as it still gets out post results of tracert

How do I confirm I don't have a proxy set? I've copied what you wrote above to a post it note so I can try entering the settings you posted.

 

[americancritic2]

Hi Lady Fitzgerald

This is Danny I had some problems like that also and even bought a new modem etc. Mom kinda chewed cox out and I guess they got tired of her calling and they tested the line when they came out. The sub-contractors just tied into another line that was running to the house, so they had 3 different fitting connectors on the same line and the internet power kept dropping off even though we had it for 3 years and it was fine and then one day it started messing up.. They ran one new line from the outside box to the house and that fixed the problem, what was weird was it just screwed up when it wanted to like what you are going through.

I hope yours is a simple fix.

Danny...

 

[samuria]

Proxy is set in network settings for Firefox and ie. In the scan when you think it dropped it shows it had done ping and DNS lookup OK so there is no fault with modem or router etc and as it still gets out the network is working so it's a browser type of fault

 

[ethel]

Hi Ladyfitzgerald, Below are where the settings are in IE11 and Firefox, if it helps at all.

IE11

Internet Options

Connections

LAN Settings

Mine has always been checked to automatically detect settings, but it will show if you have manual proxy
settings

Firefox

Options

Advanced

Network - Settings it will tell you also the proxy settings.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hi Ladyfitzgerald, Below are where the settings are in IE11 and Firefox, if it helps at all.

IE11

Internet Options

Connections

LAN Settings

Mine has always been checked to automatically detect settings, but it will show if you have manual proxy
settings

Firefox

Options

Advanced

Network - Settings it will tell you also the proxy settings.

Thanks for that clarification. I'm using IE11 and it shows no manual proxy settings. Also, it is checked to automatically detect settings.

 

[Layback Bear]

A long time ago I had two wiring problems with DSL.

1. They replaced the wiring from the pole to the house and changed the box on the house and it solved the problem for a while.

2. The other time after checking the wiring from the new box on the house to my modem and replacing it solved the problem.

Jack

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Since you have some extra entries in your hosts file I would try disabling "DNS Client" in "services.msc" .

You don't really have a lot of entries so i'm not actually sure if that's your problem but disabling DNS Client has no ill effects...

Actually, it did have ill effects. IE11 started using more CPU and Super AntiSpyware strted finding aware like crazy. Reenabling DNS client restored things to normal.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Press the Windows key + R and then copy paste the code below into the box.

control netconnections

The settings below should work for you


View attachment 399972

If you have a lot of devices on your network and are not sure what IP's are available use PowerShell to find an unused IP

1..255 | % {echo "192.168.1.$_"; ping -n 1 -w 100 192.168.1.$_ | Select-String ttl}

View attachment 399973

Note:
Unfortunately If you have any smartphones on your network they will more than likely will not respond to ping's .

All that did was break my connection. I tried rebooting and no dice. I had to restore the original settings before I could get back onto the internet.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Reset the host file you have 15000 entries caused by spybot would remove all spybot its old hat and does screw the host file and cause problems.

For some reason you have 2 gateways set which will give problems. Set your dns to 208.67.220.220 & 208.67.222.222
The first run test reset the proxy setting check IE and FF that its not been reset having a proxy is either AV or malware
When you drop you dont actually drop if you look at the test run when its dropped it connected to the internet ok
Check your HD as it says in report some files are showing corrupt

Spybot stays. I've used it for years without any problems and it does block and remove pretty much all adware and spyware. When I disabled it, I started getting adware on my computer again.

I don't use Firefox. Their cookie control sucks!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Sorry for the delay getting back to you all. This has been the worst allergy season ever (and still is). I also had to waste time dealing with Malwarebytes Protection Module not turning on upon reboot, setting up a new duplexing ADF scanner, breaking in (i.e. learning how to use it) a new PDF creation/editing program to replace Adobe Acrobat Standard XI (which reaches EOL 10/15/2017 and it's replacement is cloud and subscription based), and finding a way to replace the Adobe Add On in IE11.

I'm still getting the internet drop outs.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I just had another dropout.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Just had another one. Anyone?

 

[Digital Life]

Have you tried calling your ISP to check your line

Sorry if you answered this already I just shot to the bottom of the page instead of reading all the replies since my last post.