Internet Connection Dropping Out.

Layback Bear said:

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.

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

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.

sml156 said:

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.

samuria said:

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.

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...