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Creep · 26-08-2005, 10:47

Just got another connection stall last night during a HL session. On the modem, the orange "PC activity" LED was flashing continuously (presumably because HL was still sending up messages), but the orange "network activity" LED was out. All three green connection LEDs remained on. I got it back about 20 seconds later without any reboots or the PC complaining about losing the network. This does seem to indicate that I'm losing downstream/upstream.

I tried ping during this stall, but it wasn't responding during the DNS (I think this *may* be Sygate configuration problem as I deleted all my rules last night). However, the next time it happens, I'll be in better position to give proper diagnostics and hopefully rule Sygate in or out. I don't think posting a rolling ping/tracert will help here because that only makes sense during a one of these intermittent stalls.

I've yet to buy a NULL modem cable to get diagnostics from the modem.

26-08-2005, 10:47	#13
Creep Inactive Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 12	Re: Occasional network "freeze" in Nottingham Just got another connection stall last night during a HL session. On the modem, the orange "PC activity" LED was flashing continuously (presumably because HL was still sending up messages), but the orange "network activity" LED was out. All three green connection LEDs remained on. I got it back about 20 seconds later without any reboots or the PC complaining about losing the network. This does seem to indicate that I'm losing downstream/upstream. I tried ping during this stall, but it wasn't responding during the DNS (I think this may be Sygate configuration problem as I deleted all my rules last night). However, the next time it happens, I'll be in better position to give proper diagnostics and hopefully rule Sygate in or out. I don't think posting a rolling ping/tracert will help here because that only makes sense during a one of these intermittent stalls. I've yet to buy a NULL modem cable to get diagnostics from the modem.