Walter wrote:Loriath wrote:I am quote hungover, so forgive me if this has not been suggested.
Modern PC's never fully power off unless you physically disconnect them from the mains. If the nic is in a hung state and will not respond, I suggest pulling the power cord for a minute or two and let the capacitors in the system drain.
Turned it on this morning and it immediately connected.
The one thing I didn't do yesterday, until close of play, was to turn it off at the mains. I've been having some intermittent internet dropouts, which I
think is down to the ISP. If this happened at some point yesterday and the machine got stuck in an unrecoverable but sustainable state, perhaps that would explain it - just a guess.
Loriath drinks to curb his awesome intellect. What is he like when he's
not hung over!
Many thanks to all.
Yeah, that was a really good reminder. And now I've gotta ask ...
What is your network topology? Are you using a surge protector on your RG-6 cable or RJ-11 DSL in, before it gets to the modem/router (if the modem is built into your router)?
I live in Orlando, the lightning capital of the world (might not be the absolute, but definitely among high population cities), which is due to some interesting pressure between the Atlantic and Gulf (the reason we, and why Canaveral is the US' primary east space launch complex, rarely get hit by hurricanes). Surges are regular. At NASA and other aerospace sites in the area, we turn off our sensitive equipment and disconnect them from power when strikes get within 15mi (25km). Yes we watch those detectors constantly. Even just twisted pair copper in our attics fries over a decade and has to be replaced or we get lots of errors. NIC PHY chips eventually fry too, unless we have RJ-45 surge protectors near the PC.
No cable or DSL goes into our house without a surge protector at the end point before the modem. A lightning strike next door took out the neighborhood cable distributor, everyone's cable modem, router and hardwired PC ... except those on a cable surge protector, which was only ours ... with one catch.
It was so powerful that it fried the electronics of the UPS the cable surge protector was on which ended up generating a brown out when on battery power, and that caused some damage to the Router and I had to replace the one PC's PSU on it (the PC itself was fine, at least until a year later). One of the reasons to use a sacrifical, small, just good clamping rated surge protector with it's RG-6, RJ-11 and/or RJ-45 ports on it's own, with no equipment plugged in the same unit for power.
Even ground becomes an issue, especially in Florida, because our water table is only a couple of feet down.
Disclaimer: Please excuse any grammar, pathetic typos, or satanic versus known as "auto-correct" as this was posted via Tapatalk from my budget Honor 5X
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