Weird Ethernet Issue?

[CynicalJedi]

Alright so I've got my PC connected to my Router (Standard ADSL Internet) via Powerline adapters and ethernet.

Recently (Past maybe 3 days) I've been having a really weird issue where my ethernet is connected properly, nothing on the powerline adapters to show a problem but I just get no connection at all no yellow exclamation mark either.

My browser just hangs trying to connect to a site until it times out. So it's obviously recognizing the connection but not receiving packets?

The problem's resolved upon a restart of the system (Which is running Windows 8) it's isolated to just my PC though, my phone works fine and it happened earlier while I was using my Xbox.

Something's telling me there's a high possibility of it being a hardware fault with my MoBo's onboard networking (The MoBo is a cheap and nasty Lenovo board from a pre-built) but I don't wanna replace my MoBo until I get fibre internet (I've got a lot of games and don't want to spend tediously copious amounts of time re-downloading them all after reinstalling my OS)

Anyone got any ideas? Also another thing that makes me believe it's not related to the powerline adapters is that I can run my laptop on the ethernet and have no issues at all (Which I've been doing to check that)

 

[NachT]

Do you use Hamachi or any other virtual networks?

Go into your Network Connections page on control panel to view your network adapters, and disable the hamachi adapter.

I have the exact same issue and it's caused by Hamachi. If you don't use this, then I'm not sure, sorry ^..^

 

[CynicalJedi]

I uninstalled Hamachi after forwarding the relevant ports I needed. I should probably have mentioned what's in my network connections;

Ethernet - Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (On Board) - Enabled
Wi-Fi - Realtek RTL8188CE USB WLAN - Disabled
VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet - Disabled

 

[NachT]

Uhmm.

If the fault occurs while you have the VirtualBox one disabled, try going into the network adapters window, click Advanced at the top then select 'Advanced settings' and use the arrows to move your Realtek card to the top of the list to give it priority.

If that doesn't work, it might be worth running CCleaner, see if that helps clear any old reg keys out that were used by Hamachi etc?

It doesn't sound like a mobo fault, otherwise i'd imagine the light for your LAN would go off on the powerline adapter.

When the fault next occurs, open a command prompt and see if you can ping your router. i.e. just 'ping 192.168.1.254' - assuming thats the IP of your router, also try pinging 127.0.0.1 and try pinging google.com and let us know what the results are for each

 

[CynicalJedi]

Registry check on Ccleaner is a good point actually I'll do that and post again if the problem happens with that info ^

I thought it may be MoBo related because it's a Realtek ethernet, and from what I've seen/heard Realtek on board ethernets are pretty bad but it's been fine for the past 3 months so eh