works wireless yet cable? no hope

[razer121]

heres an odd one for somebody to try and help me work out, ive decided to connect to my network through network cable instead of wireless due to alot of lag and such online. wireless i can connect fine. i can also connect fine through the cable....but if i leave it on (my pc) for a while it will suddenly drop the connection (on cable) and will not for the hope in hell reconnect! i can still connect wirelessly mind lol. my other pc (on cable aswell) stays connected fine so i know its something to do with the pc....but the pc is a pretty fresh install? i can sort the problem out by restarting but i dont think i should have to put up with it...so any ideas??

[merdat]

Ethernet port or cable could be suspect , try changing either.

[razer121]

ok, thats done its works now ive got to see if it keeps working

[Biscuit]

Could be worth checking power saving settings for the adapter if it falls over again

[razer121]

do you know how i would be able to do that?

[Biscuit]

if you go to device manager, find your Ethernet adapter in the list then on one of the tabs there should be a list of options fr it including power saving settings. Im not on a windows PC at the moment so i cant give you an accurate step by step but its not particularly hidden.

[razer121]

thanks man, ive just found them, disabled it both now...this pc has nt been able to pass 8 hours without suddenly losing the connection. lets hope this helps

[razer121]

ok, after some more testing im still getting the same problems, but this time...windows told me that it had found a problem, the ip was wrong! either way a restart didnt sort it and neither did reseting the router, but letting windows detect other problems did solve it....am i going to have to keep putting up with this?

[Biscuit]

you could manually assign the IP to the adapter so that it stays as the correct one

[razer121]

ok but that way...it means i have to go through complicated crap each time lug it to a lan lol but i do feel this may be the option thanks for trying though guys

[mightymouse]

did you try turning off the wifi when you connect by cable? my laptop always tries to connect to the wifi even if i am connected on cable

[razer121]

yup wifi is turned of

[mycarsavw]

ok but that way...it means i have to go through complicated crap each time lug it to a lan lol but i do feel this may be the option thanks for trying though guys

Start > Control Panel > Network Connections > Right-click chosen connection > Properties > Internet Protocol TCP/IP > Properties > Alternate Configuration