This started happening a couple of weeks ago and it’s getting annoying.
I have two PC’s running windows XP that are connected to each other and to DSL with a Netgear router. Lately, every time I wake up the main PC (the faster one) from sleep or screensaver mode, I can’t get a connection.
I click on Mozilla and wait for the webpage to show up. I get an error message saying that ‘The website could not be found.’ Then I have to try again, and it connects perfectly. Every once in a while, I have to reboot the router to get connected, but that is the exception.
Does anyone know what is going on? Should I just get rid of the router? Is that causing the problem?
Have you tried waiting an extra couple of seconds before accessing the internet. Some computers drop the network connection when in standby mode and they take a second or two to reconnect. Also are these laptops or desktops. If they’re both desktop and both running the same version of Windows, make sure they have exact same power settings (if they differ change the settings on the main computer to match the other one). (BTW these are just shot’s in the dark, it’s difficult to diagnose a PC without it being in front of you, especially when it a small problem that’s due to one little setting in the bowels of the Windows UI somewhere).
Interesting. My home network has a similar phenomenon.
We have two PCs running WinXP and a Mac running OSX (Panther) connected to an SMB hub via Ethernet and the hub to a cable modem.
At least once a day, each of us will lose our internet connection. It seems to be that usually when someone sleeps or shuts down, someone else gets kicked off.
Mostly I (the Mac) can get back online by requesting a new DHCP lease, and I think my Windows brethren do the same. Sometimes it does take rebooting the hub. Sometimes I can fix it by plugging the ethernet cables into the hub in a different order.
Now I don’t really understand networks all that well, but my naive theory is that certain events, including startup and waking from sleep, cause a request for a new DHCP lease from our ISP. But the other computers in the network don’t ‘realize’ this and still are looking for the old lease, hence the need to manually request one to get back online.
Again, I emphasize that this is a naive and ill-informed theory. If this is a gross misunderstanding of The Way Things Work, I humbly request someone set me straight!
Anyway, Ice1000, I’m not sure if this helps, but you might try investigating this whole DHCP lease business. Let us know any new developments.