Wierd networking problem...

Ok, here's a wierd issue i'm having with my Gigabyte P35C-DS3R.

I've got a fully wired home network, all the cables work plugs are good etc. It's all tested on my old rig so it's definately all ok.

Whenever I boot my new rig, windows always fails to pick up my network, i get the network icon with the yellow thing over it saying like it's local only or something. The only way to get internet is to right click, go to "Diagnose and Repair" and hit "reset connection" - two or three attempts later and it picks up my network and internet and i'm good until i next restart my pc. Alternatively, i can keep unplugging and replugging the cable until it picks it up properly.

If anyone knows anything about this, please please let me know - it drives me crazy some times XD

 

hmm thats weird, did you configure a manual ip address or a dynamic ip

 

It's all dynamic.

The other weird thing is that accessing my computer over the network is REALLY slow, i'm talking dial-up slow - but accessing the rest of my network FROM my computer goes full speed.

I reckon it's some kind of incompatibility with my router.

 

No, the router.

As long as DHCP is enabled on the router, the rest of your IP addresses should work fine as being dynamic.

After making sure that there aren't any firewall settings causing a problem, the first thing to try would be to check that the appropriate Windows services are enabled.

Type services.msc from a run command and check that the following are set to automatic and running (if they are automatic and not running there could be a problem):

• Computer Browser (this is the only one that may be automatic but not necessarily running)
• DHCP Client
• DNS Client
• Network Connections (this should be ok if set to manual, so leave it be if it is)
• Network Location Awareness (same as above, if it's manual, leave it manual)
• Server
• Workstation

If they are all ok, the next thing to try would be re-installing your network card driver, and making sure you have the latest one installed.

If that doesn't work, you should probably check that the cable running to that computer isn't damaged - that could give an explanation for the slow connection to it as well.

Finally, if everything else is ok, you may be able to solve the problem by setting a static IP on that computer. If that doesn't work I thing you might have to get a new network card.

 

what? my router so doesnt work that way at all, proper DHCP can tell if a device is the same device by its MAC adress and give it the same ip it previously had, if you can just barely connect and its all slow, reboot the router, if that works then that means you need a proper router not a consumer router, like a WRT54G with openWRT/X-WRT installed, or maybe something from avila gateworks, if thats not it then you prolly got a bad cable, or broken drivers for your lan card [never had that happen but who knows?] or just a broken lan card

lol seriously consumer routers are horrible, they usualy spesificly dont keep track of the uptime because they crash very often, and if you run anything that makes alot of connections they crash on the spot and give results sounding exactly like what you got

 

Thanks for the replies guys

I'm using onboard networking btw, i've got the latest drivers etc all the wiring is good so I reckon it's just a bit bu**ered. Too late to RMA too - i'll just live with resetting the connection every time I boot

I created a packet monitoring program a few weeks back to try and work out why my outbound speeds were so bad, it turns out that most of the packets it receives are slightly out - so loads of packets have to be re-sent.

Router or LAN card? who knows.

 

how is it too late to RMA?

 

remember you can always run a openWRT/X-WRT router, its not hard, since they came out with X-wrt its *really* not hard, its usualy more painless than installing dd-wrt even

if i could go around every year on christmas spreading something to the world it would be that, screw happyness, you cant put a price on packets doing what they are suposed to when they are suposed to not when they feel like it.

heh