My laptop quit online, then worked for a couple days, then quits again
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My laptop quit online, then worked for a couple days, then quits again
Last year I hated Windows so much that I changed the laptop to VectorLinux 5.8. It worked great until it lost connection with Road Runner for quite a while. After a complete power lost it worked for 2 days, then out again. I tried unhooking all computer power, even with my wife's XP desktop.
Can you ping yoru DNS servers? I can from my system, so I know your ISP is alive...
Quote:
ping 24.92.226.40
PING 24.92.226.40 (24.92.226.40) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 24.92.226.40: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=56.4 ms
64 bytes from 24.92.226.40: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=56.2 ms
64 bytes from 24.92.226.40: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=56.9 ms
--- 24.92.226.40 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 56.229/56.535/56.955/0.363 ms
Can you access the setup panel in your router? If you can not connect to your ISP, then don't tell them you have a linux box. It doesn't matter, other than their drones only have windbloze questions to ask. I sometimes get this crap from my ISP. Last time I just took a windoze box, and played the game. Finally they found their problem. That is the way it is. Nothing wrong with your config...
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