Hi all, I hope you can help with a weird connection problem I'm having lately.
Basically, everything is working fine until suddenly the internet connection stops working. Most notably, I can't go to any websites (on either Firefox or Chrome).
The only way I can resolve it is by restarting Windows. Then everything goes back to normal, until next time. Things like restarting the router don't help.
When this happens, I can't even connect to my router (which I usually do by putting its local IP address in Firefox).
This seems to affect only my computer, and not any other computers connected to the router. Also, I've seen it happen with the same computer in two different locations (in two different cities), each with its own internet connection and router, so it seems to be a problem specifically with the computer and not with the infrastructure, ISP, router etc.
The connection to the router is through a physical RJ45 cable, and not WiFi or anything like that.
I haven't been able to identify any particular thing that triggers this. It just happens after my computer has been up for about 2 days.
To expand on the symptoms - despite what I've said, it doesn't seem correct that there's no connection at all. Rather, it seems to be extremely slow, measured perhaps in several bytes per second. So if I was already connected to a website like, say, StackExchange, I can sometimes do actions that don't require loading a new page (like posting a comment). But I can't load any pages.
Specifically, in Firefox, when I put in a URL, absolutely nothing happens. No indication that it's trying to load, no progress bar, no error message, nothing. On Chrome I get an error message.
Before the problem manifests in full, I often get a "warning" in way of Firefox managing to load a webpage, but without the css, images, etc. But soon after even the text won't load.
Hopefully it's a software thing which can be easily fixed... If it's hardware, I guess I can get a PCIe network card, as I don't want to bother with replacing the motherboard.
Thanks!
Some possibly relevant details:
OS: Windows 7 professional 64-bit
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Hero (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/overview/)
Description of LAN card from motherboard website:
Intel® I218V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s), featuring GAMEFIRST III
Intel® LAN- Dual interconnect between the Integrated LAN controller and Physical Layer (PHY)
Anti-surge LANGuard
Basically, everything is working fine until suddenly the internet connection stops working. Most notably, I can't go to any websites (on either Firefox or Chrome).
The only way I can resolve it is by restarting Windows. Then everything goes back to normal, until next time. Things like restarting the router don't help.
When this happens, I can't even connect to my router (which I usually do by putting its local IP address in Firefox).
This seems to affect only my computer, and not any other computers connected to the router. Also, I've seen it happen with the same computer in two different locations (in two different cities), each with its own internet connection and router, so it seems to be a problem specifically with the computer and not with the infrastructure, ISP, router etc.
The connection to the router is through a physical RJ45 cable, and not WiFi or anything like that.
I haven't been able to identify any particular thing that triggers this. It just happens after my computer has been up for about 2 days.
To expand on the symptoms - despite what I've said, it doesn't seem correct that there's no connection at all. Rather, it seems to be extremely slow, measured perhaps in several bytes per second. So if I was already connected to a website like, say, StackExchange, I can sometimes do actions that don't require loading a new page (like posting a comment). But I can't load any pages.
Specifically, in Firefox, when I put in a URL, absolutely nothing happens. No indication that it's trying to load, no progress bar, no error message, nothing. On Chrome I get an error message.
Before the problem manifests in full, I often get a "warning" in way of Firefox managing to load a webpage, but without the css, images, etc. But soon after even the text won't load.
Hopefully it's a software thing which can be easily fixed... If it's hardware, I guess I can get a PCIe network card, as I don't want to bother with replacing the motherboard.
Thanks!
Some possibly relevant details:
OS: Windows 7 professional 64-bit
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Hero (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/overview/)
Description of LAN card from motherboard website:
Intel® I218V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s), featuring GAMEFIRST III
Intel® LAN- Dual interconnect between the Integrated LAN controller and Physical Layer (PHY)
Anti-surge LANGuard
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