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I am going to explain what type of problem I seem to be having, if I leave anything out, please ask... I have 3 reg licence...two of them set up in the front of the store, one in the back office. Everything networked, and I was having problems with my old router, so I bought a new one a couple of weeks ago, figure it should solve my problem of loosing connection to the internet (cable). I left everything regarding the router as default. Once in a while, (every week or two) I seem to loose either connection to the network on Reg1, and or I loose internet connection on Reg1??? Reg 2 has been fine. I usually have to shut down reg1 and server(back office) unplug cable, unplug router, and reboot everything. Anyone know how I can resolve this issue? Anyone have any ideas of what the heck is wrong, is it the network / administrator / router???

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Vince
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I'd proceed thusly:

First, assume that this is a LAN problem. You are losing your internet connection because you are losing your LAN connection. This may not be true, but it is highly likely.

Since Reg1 seems to be the problem, consider a new NIC and/or cable for Reg1.

If you reboot Reg1, you cannot connect to the server without rebooting the server? While Reg2 never lost connection?

I would focus on the Reg1 NIC and cable.

Tom

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Terrible Tom

The lousy thing is I just recently replaced the wire...I had nicked the old one, so I replaced it with a brand new wire...now you say it could very possibly be the darn wire??? I am going to go crazy with this darn thing. You think I should replace the wire, or how can I check it...if this is at all possible?

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Vince

I would look at the settings for your NIC in the System Control Panel...if you are running Windows XP it is highly likely that you have a check box ticked that allows the computer to shut down this device to conserve power, or something like that. It caused no end of troubles for me until I disabled that setting.

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager

-> Network Adapters -> f> The lousy thing is I just recently replaced the wire...I had nicked the old

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ozzie

Ozzie, Thank you for the response...I will give this a try...thanks again :)

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Vince

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