'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadband

[cuyocksol]

From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar I select to remove my USB
flashdrive (Buffalo brand).

I get the proper 'now safe' pop-up, but I then find that my broadband
connection has also invariably been disconnected. (This is the other option
in Safely Remove Hardware: "SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP" - but I do not select
it.)

I then have to manually reconnect to the internet, and sometimes it won't
even do this till after restart.

(Windows XP home edition with SP3)

 

[R. McCarty]

If your PC has a wired Ethernet NIC - connect the modem to it with a
Ethernet cable and not the USB. Obviously disconnecting the Flash is
causing a transient condition that causes the modem connection to fail.

 

[Onsokumaru]

From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar I select to remove my
USB
flashdrive (Buffalo brand).

I get the proper 'now safe' pop-up, but I then find that my broadband
connection has also invariably been disconnected. (This is the other
option
in Safely Remove Hardware: "SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP" - but I do not select
it.)

I then have to manually reconnect to the internet, and sometimes it won't
even do this till after restart.

(Windows XP home edition with SP3)

Are they connected to the same USB port?

Try a different port if this is the case.

I think if you unplug the modem for a few seconds, then plug it back in XP
should find it again.

As someone suggested, if the modem and computer have LAN ports, use them.

 

[cuyocksol]

No I'm using different USB ports........ I dunno if I have a different cable
I can use with my modem (LAN/Ethernet?), I can look...

But I don't see why this problem should be occurring. Why are both USB ports
deactivated if only one hardware option is requested to be removed?

 

[R. McCarty]

USB ports (sockets) are internally routed. Many motherboards have a
Single enhanced controller. So a USB 2.0 device plugged into ANY
socket will route to that enhanced controller/hub. Also there are several
USB1(.1) controller/hubs that are socket dependant. How the devices
interact depends on what technology they are and which sockets they
are plugged into.

To determine cause, you'd have to check the Power consumption and
the bandwidth used with both devices plugged in.