Network that Comes and Goes...

[Guest]

This is a tough one, but any ideas would be welcome.... I have a cable modem
feeding into a Dell wireless router on the 3rd floor, an XP desktop in the
same room that's hardwired into it, an XP laptop on the wireless network, and
a Win95 desktop in the basement hardwired to a Linksys switch, also in the
basement, that's hardwired into the router. The 3rd floor desktop runs at
100 MBps, the laptop is at 11 MBps, and the basement desktop is at 10 MBps.
Everything works fine until about 5 pm when I lose the basement connection.
Why is this happening?

BTW, I posted this on the Broadband Networking Newsgroup a few days ago and
was advised to take the question to this newsgroup. I would modify my
question slightly by adding that the Win95 desktop in the basement doesn't
really work fine during the day: it's really slow. Network and internet
access then disappears in the evening. Also, I've adjusted the Win95 network
card to 10Base full duplex (it won't work on Autosense or 100Base).

Thank you.

 

[Haggis]

This is a tough one, but any ideas would be welcome.... I have a cable
modem
feeding into a Dell wireless router on the 3rd floor, an XP desktop in the
same room that's hardwired into it, an XP laptop on the wireless network,
and
a Win95 desktop in the basement hardwired to a Linksys switch, also in the
basement, that's hardwired into the router. The 3rd floor desktop runs at
100 MBps, the laptop is at 11 MBps, and the basement desktop is at 10
MBps.
Everything works fine until about 5 pm when I lose the basement
connection.
Why is this happening?

BTW, I posted this on the Broadband Networking Newsgroup a few days ago
and
was advised to take the question to this newsgroup. I would modify my
question slightly by adding that the Win95 desktop in the basement doesn't
really work fine during the day: it's really slow. Network and internet
access then disappears in the evening. Also, I've adjusted the Win95
network
card to 10Base full duplex (it won't work on Autosense or 100Base).

Thank you.

someone turning off a light that controls an electrical socket when they
leave ? shutting down a switch/router.

after some of my techs were upset that they lost the network in one lab....I
told them not to turn off the power bar that supplies the router :>

 

[Guest]

Haggis:

Thanks, but my father-in-law, who's an EE, already thought about that: we
avoided running the cat 5 parallel to AC wiring (if at all); the switch and
router are plugged into independent circuits, etc. This one is really weird:
the only reason I'm persisting is I set the network up all in the same room
before I made the plunge and hardwired the 1st floor and basement, and it all
worked just fine. For some reason, the win95 computer doesn't like living in
the basement.

Thanks for trying.

JP