Anyone Router Savvy?

this problem never arose before but..

since installing steam (and probably only coincidence) my router has been problematic.

i have two comps on one line via my router, but whenever i go online to frag, my router kicks my other PC out.. literally loses it and says "unplugged from line"

now my theory is my cable is old and needs replaced, but its odd , that it seems to occur only when i frag :sad:

any clues?

If you have several different ports on your router, unplug the cable from one of your computers and plug it into a different router port.

Worth a try...

LOL, I'm not a computer guru, but I've done this before and it's helped me in the same situation.

DocRock said:
If you have several different ports on your router, unplug the cable from one of your computers and plug it into a different router port.

Worth a try...

LOL, I'm not a computer guru, but I've done this before and it's helped me in the same situation.

sadly, i already did this, as i said, its not full time, its on again/off again :sad:

hmmm...

/shrugs shoulders

I'm sure one of these other fellas will be able to give ya a hand. Good luck.

Too many collisions perhaps. Or it could be that the router is having some problem negotiating some protocol or something. Try going into the network card settings for the machine being disconnected and forcing it to be either full or half duplex (try both). No idea why this would only happen when you play HL, and if it is too many collisions (indicated by collision light for that port flashing on the router), then I have no idea how to fix that. Perhaps if your router supports port forwarding you could force it to send all incoming packets on the HL ports to your PC... the other PC might not like them.

bumps

Old thread perhaps, but still on topic.

As to my earlier issue, it turned out that my card was bad, not the router. So, its best to check all the hardware before one panics..

New problem, solution.

For almost the entire time I was on this run, my internet has been down. I checked everything and yet was stymied..

All my hardware was fine... (I checked, all 3 PC's were not talking to the net so it assumes that its localized to the router, or modem.)

I called my ISP, my internet was up and fine..

I checked my router, it showed alls fine too..

I was getting worried, I was starting to think my modem was bad, in spite of all the green lights stating otherwise.

Solution.. I reset the router.. After I re-entered the username/password, the thing began to hum along as before..

All I can figure is, some sort of a power flicker happened while no one noticed and borked the routers input cause the thing couldn't find the net without the proper user/pass.

For the record.. Linksys codes the password so no one gaining access to it can tell how many digits are in the word/phrase.. mine is 6 digits, but it has like 15 asterisk symbols to mask them so no one can say "hey it has only 6"

Final verdict... check everything before you consign it to the scrap bin. :biggrin:

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Solution.. I reset the router.. After I re-entered the username/password, the thing began to hum along as before..

All I can figure is, some sort of a power flicker happened while no
one noticed and borked the routers input cause the thing couldn't find
the net without the proper user/pass.

The "official" term for that is power cycling. Call up your router
company's tech support and they will usually ask you to power cycle it,
and probably charge you as well. I don't know why but LOTS of problems
with routers are fixed like this, especially with lower cost home
routers. It's probably some bug in the firmware that cause them to
"degrade" slowly over time and can only be fixed by resetting them.

My ADSL modem+router (Huawei MT800) does that as well. If there's a
power flicker it goes into an error mode and disconnects itself from
everything. You have to switch it off and wait a while before
restarting it, and then it works fine. All I can get from their
website, though, is "ultrafast internet modem router work blazing speed
no problem 100% fine", which isn't much help when you're looking for
firmware updates :/

I may be confusing myself a bit Fragman, but my router actually has a reset button.. you hold it in for about 5 seconds and it wipes all the internal commands to factory default..

Hence, I had to re-enter my user/pass.. however, I now have to re-enter all my forwarded ports and whatnot as well.. So I am depressed as they were accumulated over a 3 year period and I do not remember them all :sad:

Lets hope that I do not need to many to play my current game list.

Unplugging my router for a day, would not have helped me a bit.

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I totally and completely read your post wrong :/ I was thinking reset
in the power-off-power-on sense, and not the firmware reset sense...

/me shoots self

fraggard said:
I totally and completely read your post wrong :/ I was thinking reset in the power-off-power-on sense, and not the firmware reset sense...

/me shoots self

No worries bud.. I even confuse myself most times. Funny, I think it so crystal clear, and by the time the thought hits my finger tips its all fuzzled.

Text sucks, at least it does when stupid people like me use it. :/

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