Internet randomly cutting out

[primarypunisher]

Starting a day or so ago my internet randomly cuts out for anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes. There are two computers hooked up to our cisco 675 modem via a linksys switch. My computer is the only one that loses connection. I have no idea why its doing this any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
Tom

 

[OoteR02]

first.. change the port on the switch you are connected to.

if it keeps dying, you may have a bad cable, or a bad NIC/drivers.

 

[primarypunisher]

Thanks Oote, I switched the port on the switch and I'm gonna see how that works for a while.

 

[primarypunisher]

After changing the port in the switch i was connected to I have lost connection 4 or 5 times.

 

[OoteR02]

What OS?

if xp does it say "network cable unplugged" or give an error message in the task bar?

 

[primarypunisher]

it is XP but it doesnt say anything at all. I am able to ipconfig /release and renew but even after that it still doesnt work.

 

[nweaver]

open a cmd windows, ping your default gateway with the -t flag and see if the pings stop when your internet cuts out. If not, try pinging google with the -t for the same thing. When you say it "cuts out" what do you mean? IM logs out, web pages are slow?