Internet Goes Down HELP!!

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jaredc

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My internet keeps going to limited or no connectivity. Like i'll be playing a game online or something, then it will just cut out. Very annoying as i play a lot of online games with friends.

The internet even cut out writing this. The thing that fixes it (besides a restart), though sometimes very temporarily is in vista doing the trouble shooting and selecting the "Reset the network adapter".


I have no idea whats going on. I am on a campus, using their internet, so i am hooked in through ethernet, in a jack on the wall.

System Specs
CPU: i7 920
MOBO: Asus P6T
RAM: 6gb DDR3
Graphics Card: 8800 GTS Ko Ac3
 
How many people in your building ? I could see massive drops , If everyone is online at the same time..A little more details might help as well...
 
Im pretty possitive this isn't a widespread problem.

As for more details.... I've tried updating the driver for my network adapter, i believe its a Realtek 8111c. I'm running vista 64bit. The internet works for a pretty long period of time, then goes down, in the bottom right hand corner of the screen it shoes the yellow triangle in the connectivity icon.
 
Can you give more details about your building, Is it a building that is sub divided into how many parts..Do you have room mates that share this connection ? Can you ask the guy next door if He is having the same problem ? I don;t think it is your network card...
It sounds like your connection instead.
 
I'm quite sure this isn't a dorm wide thing. This is an isolated event with my set up. I did switch the port in the wall--this didn't fix it.

This only happens after some time. I notice it while playing a game, and talking to my friend on skype while playing. He says i start to break up, then the internet usually goes down after this. A restart is pretty mandatory then. I would be very hesitant to blame it on skype, because i believe the internet has gone down w/o skype on as well.

That being said, everything works just fine at first. Then like perhaps and hour into game play (extremely variable) it will go down.

It is one building, probably like around 120 rooms with 2 people in them each. However nobody else seems to have a problem AT ALL, and i did switch the port in the wall to my roomates :-) lol and it didn't fix it.
 
Vista has an ultra gimped TCP stack, you may just be simply using too much - I upped mine from 10 to 1000 and now can leech from Usenet, Torrents while web browsing with no problems. I'll try to dig the link to the tool out later.
 
Thanks a ton Ferg, I downloaded the fix, and ran it. The value in question was set to 10, now its 100 per the fix. We'll see if this was the problem! I'll let you know.
 
jaredc said:
Thanks a ton Ferg, I downloaded the fix, and ran it. The value in question was set to 10, now its 100 per the fix. We'll see if this was the problem! I'll let you know.
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Kewl best of luck - BTW I set mine to 1000 and it really made a difference - just be careful you don't get a virus - your ISP would not be your friend if you have that much outbound capability and a virus starts spamming :D
 
Well, that didn't fix it. And neither did completely formatting the hard drive and putting OS 7 on it. I just have no clue what could be going on at this point..... :(
 
I did switch ports in the wall to my roomates old one, and he hasn't had any problems at all, on either port.

Could it be skype? I am on skype when it happens usually.... Or could it be a defective motherboard?
 
Alright, now i'm really getting pissed off. :mad:

Here's another symptom of this. It seems like every time before the internet fails, I hear some audio popping noises, kind of faint, but it happens each time before it fails. And i was playing a non-online game today and it did this. Then sure enough i checked, and the internet was at a "limited or no connectivity". WTF :confused:
 
update the bios, I know your current bios version detects the Lan controller but could have some bug fix's in the latest bios update. once updated re-install lan drivers. let us know the outcome.
 
Mmk I updated the bios to the most recent version from the ASUS support site. And i've got the latest drivers installed.

I'll let you know what happens!
 
alrighty well i'm in college, going home next week. so i will probably be able to scrounge up a pci network adapter then.

I am pretty much able to tell when the internet is going to fail, there is audio distortion (faint popping noises), then the computer will get slow, and i will have to restart. I don't know if this description will help at all...

So far I've
-updated bios
-uninstalled and reinstalled the network adapter drivers
 
This really only seems to happen when i play games for some reason. I can be downloading stuff for hours or just searching the internet and it will be just fine.

However when i play a game, (not even an internet based game) like oblivion, company of heroes, call of duty 5 . I'll hear some faint popping noises, then i know that sure enough if i go back to my desktop, it will show my internet is down (and it is).

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

helllllllpppppp

I'm running windows 7 RC 64 bit
I was running Windows Vista 64 bit, and this happened on that OS too so i don't think its related to os.. perhaps that its 64 bit ?
 
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