 help fixing internet connection, internet suddenly started working "half-a$$" (sorry |
Welcome Guest ( Log In | Click here to Register a free account now! )
Register a free account to unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com
Welcome to Bleeping Computer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.
 Jul 3 2009, 10:11 AM
Post
#1
|
|
|
Member  Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 1-December 08 From: USA Member No.: 263,702  |
HERE is a link showing someone who has a VERY similar problem to mine (just they have their stuff a bit more organized).
I have a dsl internet connection and all was fine yesterday. This morning, I got up to play WoW and it seemed really laggy and it wasn't long before I realized it was me and not the server. First, I'll tell you about the layout of my connection. I don't know the difference between a modem or a router, but this setup is the one i've always ised and it has always worked fine. I have a "phone cord" (smaller head than ethernet" attatched to jack on my wall. This "phone cord" goes to router 1 (R1). R1 has a dsl input (where my "phone cord" goes), a power input, an un-used usb port, and an ethernet port that I put an ethernet cord in to connect R1 to router 2 (R2). R2 is now connected to the internet right? well, R2 has a power input, a "Main Ethernet" port (where R1 connects to to share it's internet), and 4 additional ethernet ports to "split" the connection however I want (whether it be to my xbox [which is broken] or to more computers.) I have 2 additional ethernet cords runnung from R2 to PC1 and PC2. PC1 has always been slow because it is a weak computer. PC2 has always been fast. Now, PC2's internet speed is faster than PC1's. So I opened up firefox 3.0.11and ie8 but my internet connection was awkward to say the least. Websites, whenever I browsed to one, displayed only half the time. Meaning, whenever a webpage did display, it took forever to do it... but half of the time ie8 just said "Internet cannot display the webpage" and firefox said "Page load error; address not found" At first, I thought it was simply in need of a power cycle, but it didn't solve anything. back on PC1, the internet worked great. so i figured it was the cord that was the problem. So i got new cords but this solved nothing once again. the next thing i tried was cutting out R2, meaning i plugged the internet straight to R1 then to PC2 (rather than Internet, R1, R2, split to pc1 &2). It still fixed nothing. i ran dsl speed tests from a website and i got like 1.5 mB/s down and 500kb/s up. i went to 192.168.1.1 and my statistics showed that my connection was UP and this: CODE Connection Rate (Down/Up): 1792 Kbits/sec by 320 Kbits/sec Connection Status In Packets Out Packets 3543 3475 In Error Packets Out Error Packets 0 0 IP Network Address PPP Primary DNS Secondary DNS 207.119.82.65 64.91.3.60 64.91.3.46 Ethernet Status In Packets Out Packets 9125 4425 ATM NetworkAddress VPI VCI 8 35 Firewall Status Passed Dropped In: 3514 Out: 3512 In: 14 Out: 0 restarting the computer didn't work, my connection is set up properly, but i cannot browse to any webpage i want. it even only finds google half of the time. if anyone has ever had this problem, or knows how to fix it, could you give me a solution? |
 |
 
|
Posts in this topic
  |
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
| Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 22nd November 2009 - 12:34 AM |
© 2003-2009 All Rights Reserved Bleeping Computer LLC.