Maybe you guys can help me trouble-shoot this issue. I live in a college dorm thats wired for ethernet, and I'm running windows 2k. About every 5-10 minutes my connection freezes up and acts like it doesn't have a link. This happens while web-browsing, using instance messenger, online games etc. I basically have to restart the application that needs a constant connection or refresh the browser window until it comes back up. Usually opening up IE again fixes the link. I got in the habbit of having a dos window open and I do a "ipconfig /refresh" and that activates my link again also.
I just moved to a different room and I was hoping it was something with the particular port I was connected to, unfortunately the problem is still there. It also does the same thing with my laptop thats running win98.
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated. Guy's on my floor have the same problem. I'll probably have to email the University tech support, but just wondering if anyone had anything else to suggest.
I just moved to a different room and I was hoping it was something with the particular port I was connected to, unfortunately the problem is still there. It also does the same thing with my laptop thats running win98.
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated. Guy's on my floor have the same problem. I'll probably have to email the University tech support, but just wondering if anyone had anything else to suggest.