Network Connectivity – Intermittent?
Office setup, 5 hard wired machines, 2 wireless. Outgoing connection is a 15MBps cable modem. Cable modem feeds into 8 port 100MBps router, with VPN/Firewall. It’s a Netgear FVG-318.
All machines connect fine within the local subnet. The wired machines will however lose their internet connection at random. 1 user is dropping their connection and having to use the “repair” option up to 15 times a day. The wireless machines never lose their internet connectivity. The other wired machines may go down anywhere from 1x-10x a day…the repair option in windows always corrects the problem but still…this should not be happening. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!
Nothing but a wild guess, I’d go into the router configuration screen and check the dhcp lease time. Make sure its set to 30 days or something big. If its set to too small a time, the ip address may be expiring, which is why a repair fixes it.
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