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| 477670 | 2006-08-10 23:47:00 | I bought a Ethernet ADSL Router 4 port, and plugged my daughters and my puter into the router, set up broadband, great, love the speed, but then go to bed, my puter goes into standby, comes back out, wont reconnect to the net, even though it says there is a connection. I tried hitting refresh on the usage meter that comes with xnet, tried opening in IE instead of Firefox, tried rebooting, nothing. Daughters is connecting fine. Rung the help desk, he says it is something to do with my puter, as the connection is fine. Ok, so now I have turned off standbye, got connected again, but if anyone else has any clues, I would be happy to hear them. We both run XP SP2, her puter is brand new, ie 2 weeks old, mine is nearly 3 years old. My ethernet card is Via Rhine 11 fast ethernet adaptor, and hers is SIS 900 based PCI fast ethernet adapter. Another question I have is that looking back through some old messages, you ask what the ping rate is, or something similar. What do you ping, or how do you ping? That lost me, so thought I might as well ask that too. TIA |
supergran (108) | ||
| 477671 | 2006-08-11 01:20:00 | Great success! Well done . I will have a stab at the problem you have . I don't know whether it will be the cause of the disconnect but it costs nothing to try . Rt click My Computer, left click Manage, left click Device Manager . Then open up the line with Network Adaptor and dbl click on the ethernet adaptor . Then click the Power Management tab and uncheck Allow computer to turn off to save power . If it is already unchecked, forget all of the above!! Worth a try . A ping is just a primitive packet sender . Most devices when receiving the packet reply with an acknowledgment, although sometimes systems are set not to respond to pings . This is very useful as it will tell you whether IP circuits are working . For example, to see whether you can "talk" to another computer or your router, at the command prompt you type ping followed by the IP no . and hit enter . If it comes back saying it sent 4 packets and received 4, the IP link is good . The command would look like this:- ping 192 . 168 . 1 . 1 for example . You could see whether you were getting to your router by pinging it . The router will probably have a default IP addr of either 192 . 168 . 1 . 1 or 10 . 1 . 1 . 1 . Check docu to make sure or just try pinging each addr to see which one works . If you then ping an outside site's addr and get all packets returned then you know your router is going out OK . Try ping 210 . 48 . 100 . 10 This is IDG's no . Then try ping www . idg . co . nz If all packets return you know another thing . The DNS servers are being accessed OK . Handy stuff . Don't forget the power of google if you want to learn stuff!! |
linw (53) | ||
| 477672 | 2006-08-11 01:50:00 | Ok thanks heaps for replying, and your first suggestion wasn't unchecked, so it is now . I tried pinging both those, the numbers, and www . idg, and both worked, so now at least I know how to do that . Are our computers numbers in the settings that I can find by entering 192 . 168 . 1 . 2 in my browser? Sorry for such dumb questions and yes, I have been trying to google a lot of this, and I just get information overload, and don't seem to find anything . We haven't networked our computers together as such, ie no print sharing etc, they are just sharing a router so we both have broadband . |
supergran (108) | ||
| 477673 | 2006-08-11 21:57:00 | Ok, that didn't work, this morning I had to reboot again, just to get online on my puter. But thanks for trying. Anyone else got any ideas why my computer is dropping broadband once it goes into standby mode? Help please :help: |
supergran (108) | ||
| 477674 | 2006-08-11 23:21:00 | Try right click on connection in taskbar and select repair | straitjacket (9698) | ||
| 477675 | 2006-08-11 23:53:00 | I suspect it may be a difference of opinion between your computer and the router . By default, when your computer starts up, it will request an IP number from the router (DHCP turned on) . Chances are that the computer is losing the allocated IP and therefore the modem and computer won't talk . Possibly a fixed IP number may fix your problem . To find the IP range, as there are several, is to post back some info . When connected and all is well, go start - run Type and enter COMMAND Type and enter in the window that pops up IPCONFIG /ALL Just need to know the "Default gateway" number and the "IP address" number . |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 477676 | 2006-08-12 02:50:00 | Try right click on connection in taskbar and select repair Signed, this is by far the fastest and easiest way to fix the problem. XP repair renews IP and DNS, a lot faster than a reboot or manual command promt commands. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 477677 | 2006-08-12 03:24:00 | I bought a Ethernet ADSL Router 4 port, and plugged my daughters and my puter into the router, Try using a computer :D |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 477678 | 2006-08-12 05:57:00 | Check out this thread DNS Client (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) I found it solved my problem for when my pc went into hibernation |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 477679 | 2006-08-12 07:02:00 | Try right click on connection in taskbar and select repair Battleneter, I don't have a connection on the task bar. I apologise Dolby, for taking shortcuts with my spelling Phoenix, the Gateway is 192.168.1.2 and the IP is the same till the last number, which is 6. |
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