Ethernet Keeps Dropping
Hi,
I am super frustrated with my home internet. I’m barely tech savy, but I’ve looked up this issue and tried a few of the main suggestions and none of them have helped.
My desktop PC keeps dropping its wired ethernet connection. I have gone into Device Manager and verified that my Ethernet Controller has the latest drivers. I have swapped out several known good cat5 and 6 cables and that seems to have no effect.
Just this morning I’ve turned on the machine. everything is normal for about 5 minutes then the ethernet drops. its currently in a neverending trying to reconnect process and sometimes it actually manages to reconnect. It did just now, stayed connected for 3 minutes. And dropped again.
Yesterday it was doing it all day. On the 4th or 5th reboot of my machine and the routers it stayed rock solid for the rest of the evening (6hours). Only to be on the fritz again this morning.
I have a Verizon modem in the garage, and then a line up to a wireless router on the 2nd floor which also relays a line up to the 3rd floor where my pc is. The lights on the garage modem are always all green. The lights on the back of the router often turn amber on the line up to the 3rd floor pc, and I’ll see a 98% drop in my bitrates, from 500mb/sec to 9mb/sec. Sometimes my network does that and sometimes my pc just jumps off it.
I logged into the router management page (198.1.whatever) and there was no place to update the firmware, apparently Verizon ones do it automatically.
I would really appreciate if I could get some help. In the time it took to type this out on my phone, the desktop seems to have stopped looping through trying to connect and has settled on being connected. For how long that will last is anyone’s guess.