Wireless works, but ethernet doesnt??

ashatron · 27 May 2010 at 20:44

Hi all.

I have a wireless router in my house, i prefer to wired connection for a more consistent connection. however my family use wireless and somehow their wireless will continue to work, whilst my cable connected pc internet doesn't work.

To me that is crazy!

How can i fix this, and set it so the wired connection is prioritized.

Hope you can help, i understand you must have lots of messages like this, but im hoping you can get back to me!

Coldzero · 27 May 2010 at 21:26

What OS you using? and under connections does it say the LAN one is connected?

J.B · 27 May 2010 at 21:40

My first thought is it may be a driver problem on your PC.

Does it work sometimes or not at all? Any patterns?

Tried a different cable?

ashatron · 27 May 2010 at 23:01

Thanks for replies all!!

Coldzero said:
What OS you using? and under connections does it say the LAN one is connected?

im using XP.
it does say connected, but when my internet stops working when others use wireless im not sure what it says, im guessing it says disconnected - next time it happens i will be sure to look and report back.

ashatron · 27 May 2010 at 23:03

J.B said:
My first thought is it may be a driver problem on your PC.

Does it work sometimes or not at all? Any patterns?

Tried a different cable?

No patterns i can see other than when wireless users are online also it disconnects.

It works all the time after i reset the modem and router, but then will work for some time and then fail if anyone uses wireless.

Will try a different cable! thanks.

Its so temperamental

El_Watcher · 28 May 2010 at 13:41

I had a similar problem with a Netgear DGN2000, where wireless was perfect, but wired would only work at about 1bit/sec, so pinging web sites worked, but loading pages wouldn't.
Basically took it back for replacement, and the new one works perfectly.

trickycurve · 28 May 2010 at 16:40

I had exactly the same problem as above a few months ago and with the same router as well. The replacement worked perfectly.

I never did find out what the problem was, though.

ashatron · 29 May 2010 at 12:28

Thanks so much all, very helpful!

trickycurve said:
I had exactly the same problem as above a few months ago and with the same router as well. The replacement worked perfectly.

I never did find out what the problem was, though.

El_Watcher said:
I had a similar problem with a Netgear DGN2000, where wireless was perfect, but wired would only work at about 1bit/sec, so pinging web sites worked, but loading pages wouldn't.
Basically took it back for replacement, and the new one works perfectly.

Right. Interesting stuff.
Bizarrely i never used to have this problem though. Maybe i need a new router, any recommendations? there will be a few laptops connected wirelessly and one computer connected directly.

Also is there anyway to set limits on wireless connections? to split the bandwidth evenly.

Thanks again

Ryan111 · 29 May 2010 at 12:54

Cable or ADSL?

ashatron · 29 May 2010 at 16:56

Ryan111 said:
Cable or ADSL?

cable internet, coax!

Any ideas?

Ryan111 · 29 May 2010 at 17:15

Have to recommend the WRT54GL + Tomato firmware. Am using it here, QoS via MAC address means I can limit any computer/device to whatever speed

Means that no matter what anyone else is doing, I always get a good connection

ashatron · 31 May 2010 at 00:00

Ryan111 said:
Have to recommend the WRT54GL + Tomato firmware. Am using it here, QoS via MAC address means I can limit any computer/device to whatever speed Means that no matter what anyone else is doing, I always get a good connection

THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!
that sounds awesome, so gonna look into it