Problems connecting to the Internet


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Quick question. How can I test to see whether there is something wrong with my ethernet card/port on my computer? I think my Ethernet port might be going up or something. The ethernet connection light on my cable modem keeps flickering and I'm dropping internet connection sometimes for like an hour or two and then BOOM it magically comes back. The ethernet light constantly flickers (is it suppose to do that showing you it's working?) and the DS light goes solid green but then the US light blinks and finally stops. Then the DS light starts blinking but goes solid green again and the US light once again starts to flash but won't go solid. Now here is the weird thing though. When I get internet back the US light goes solid green but the DS light goes red but I get the internet back? How is that possible... shouldn't a red light mean it's not working?

I turned in my old cable modem to Comcast and got a new one yesterday but it's doing the same thing. Usually around 12pm every day my internet goes out and then around 3-3:30pm it will magically come back. They are sending a technician out Monday but that won't help me if my Ethernet connection is bad or going up. So is there any way I can test my ethernet connection using a programme or something that shows what kind of signal strength I'm getting? If worse comes to worse my ethernet port that is hardwired into the mobo might be going up in which case I'll have to buy an actual network card and install it. I just think it's weird that I lose it for an hour or two a day and then it magically comes back even though the modem shows there is a problem. I replaced the cables leading from the wall and the computer to the modem as well and the same problem so it can't be the modem or the connections.


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Having it happen like clockwork at a certain time of day suggests it is not your system. System malfunctions are typically not that consistent...if it's not gonna work, it's just not going to work, period, or it's going to randomly not work throughout the day, not at highly-specific timeframes.


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I'd agree, regular outages of a near-fixed period of time at a certain time are rather unusual. When components start going bad, they tend to be erratic or total in their failures. Your best bet seems to be to wait for the tech. They'll have the tools to diagnose everything. If it's not your system, then it will get fixed and if it is, you'll know it for certain at that point since all else will be eliminated as possibilities by the tech.


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