Internet gets cut

Hi!

I recently installed Win7 and I'm kind of pleased but I've got a very disturbing issue. Whenever I try to download something my internet gets cut for some reason. I read that there are several others who've got the same problem. I wonder if there is any solution to this problem? It complains about my network adapter. My internet goes down and I have to restart my computer most of the time in order to get back online.

I've got the same problem as mentioned here "http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/811-internet-problems.html". The person in question got it solved by installing the latest drivers. I've got the latest drivers (from MSI's site) for my card. My "ethernet card" is attached to my mainboard so I'm not really sure what to look for if I wanted to install the ethernet drivers separate. But my mainboard is K9N SLI, from MSI.

I really want to see this solved. Please help!

Viratuss said:

Hi!

I recently installed Win7 and I'm kind of pleased but I've got a very disturbing issue. Whenever I try to download something my internet gets cut for some reason. I read that there are several others who've got the same problem. I wonder if there is any solution to this problem? It complains about my network adapter. My internet goes down and I have to restart my computer most of the time in order to get back online.

I've got the same problem as mentioned here "http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/811-internet-problems.html". The person in question got it solved by installing the latest drivers. I've got the latest drivers (from MSI's site) for my card. My "ethernet card" is attached to my mainboard so I'm not really sure what to look for if I wanted to install the ethernet drivers separate. But my mainboard is K9N SLI, from MSI.

I really want to see this solved. Please help!

V
Hi and welcome

Can we get some info from you. what mobo, what model, ram, etc

Can you type device manager in search>go to the networking tap. look to see if your driver is there and if it has a yellow triangle on it.

Also look for any 'unknown' devices with yellow

thanks

Ken J+

I have the Asus p5b-plus with the Atheros L1 gigabit adapter and I'm on Windows 7 64 bit. I was getting frequent disconnects when transferring large files over the network or downloading torrents. This required me to run through the troubleshooter each time to allow it to work temporarily again.

I fixed this by going into the driver properties panel> Advanced> Task Offload> Off. After it reset I was running fine.

zigzag3143 said:

Viratuss said:

Hi!

I recently installed Win7 and I'm kind of pleased but I've got a very disturbing issue. Whenever I try to download something my internet gets cut for some reason. I read that there are several others who've got the same problem. I wonder if there is any solution to this problem? It complains about my network adapter. My internet goes down and I have to restart my computer most of the time in order to get back online.

I've got the same problem as mentioned here "http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/811-internet-problems.html". The person in question got it solved by installing the latest drivers. I've got the latest drivers (from MSI's site) for my card. My "ethernet card" is attached to my mainboard so I'm not really sure what to look for if I wanted to install the ethernet drivers separate. But my mainboard is K9N SLI, from MSI.

I really want to see this solved. Please help!

V
Hi and welcome

Can we get some info from you. what mobo, what model, ram, etc

Can you type device manager in search>go to the networking tap. look to see if your driver is there and if it has a yellow triangle on it.

Also look for any 'unknown' devices with yellow

thanks

Ken J+

Hi and thanks!

Well I've got a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz, 4,00 GB RAM. The NIC is integrated within the mainboard and is a Nvidia chipset.

The drivers are there and are working. There is an unknown device, but it's a USB port så I doubt it has got anything to do with this I'm afraid.

I've tried everything from looking for a better driver, but since I don't know exactly what to look for when the card is integrated and all, I don't wanna mess things up even more than things are. I've also tried puting off power save for PCI Express, I read somewhere that it could help. And finally, I tried to turn off the "Task Offload" thingy. It didn't help. :/

It seems that this is not so uncommon after all. I've consulted google and read on several forums of people experiencing similar problems with loosing their connection and being forced to run troubleshoot or rebooting their computer in order to get back online. None of them had this problem before they switched to Win7. Sadly I'm one of them. I know there is nothing wrong with my computer because my laptop has got the same issue and none of them has ever done anything like this before.

Help please..

Viratuss said:

Help please..

Are you using homegroup for networking?

Ken J+

Yes, it's homegroup. :)

Viratuss said:

Yes, it's homegroup. :)

I assmumed it was. Homegroup has a whole series of problems with it. It uses IPv6 and IPv6 has been shown to cause random drops, dl slowdowns, share probs etc. You can use workgroup and make the change fairly easily.

All it take is to go into networking and set up a new network using workgroup. After you finish getting it set up you can go back and delete the homegroup and disable the IPv6

Hope this helps

\Let us know if you need help with any of this


Ken J++