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Frequent connection drops
Hey there,
I have been having trouble with my connection dropping out and then instantly reconnecting, it lasts just long enough to disconnect me from everything I have running that requires a connection to the net and stop all downloads and streams.
I had this problem on my built-in Realtek Gigabit adapter (Which is currently disabled), and I ended up buying a new Linksys NIC (EG1032) in hope of a fix, but the exact same thing happens on this one as well.
Sometimes I won't see it for weeks, even months, then suddenly I am getting DC's every few minutes.
I can't see any pattern in when it happens. It has happened after clean Windows installs, reboots with nearly nothing running, under load ... any time really.
Doing a tracert at the moment I see a loss, gave me this:
Tracing route to placebo-eu.com [69.163.238.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 188 ms 191 ms * apache2-zoo.skopje.dreamhost.com [69.163.238.113]
13 197 ms 198 ms 200 ms apache2-zoo.skopje.dreamhost.com [69.163.238.113]
Trace complete.
I have tried several different fixes in threads about connection losses (Disabling power saving settings, IPv6 etc...), nothing has worked so far.
I am running on Windows 7 Ultimate x64, using a quad core CPU (i7 920), have not tried any other OS, can't remember seeing this before Windows 7.
If I forgot anything, or you need more info, please let me know. :)
Thanks,
Andeby
Last edited by Andeby; 19 Oct 2010 at 10:01. Reason: Tiny additions.