Internet is dying - diagnostics

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2017, 10:37:53 CEST schrieb Colin Law:
> On 22 October 2017 at 10:05, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2017, 09:47:28 CEST schrieb Colin Law:

> >> Well 192.168.178.20 is your own address, so it doesn't get any further
> >> than that. So that suggests either your network card, the
> >> cable/connectors or the router.
> > 
> > I think, it's the router. The connection was broken, just now, and I
> > turned
> > the router off/on. When the router's lights finished blinking, the
> > connection was back.
> 
> Not necessarily the network card might be confused and recovers by
> being, effectively, disconnected and reconnected. You might find the
> same thing if you unplug the cable wait for 10 seconds and plug it
> back in.
> 
> >> Are there other devices plugged into
> >> the router?
> > 
> > My laptop and my smartphone, are "plugged in" over WLAN.
> > 
> >> if so then switch the connections for yourself and the
> >> other device
> 
> I meant unplug the two cables and plug them back in but the other way
> round, so if it is just one connection in the router then the PC
> should now work and the other device might be intermittent.
> 
> > You mean, interchange the two network cables? (I've got only one, but I
> > also don't really understand.)
> 
> How can you only have one cable if the PC and the smartphone are both
> plugged in? 

Therefore, I've enclosed the phrase "plugged in" in quotes, above.

> Perhaps you mean that the phone is on wifi and only the PC
> is plugged in. 

Yes.

> In which case try the cable in another socket on the
> router and if that doesn't help then get hold of another cable, with
> luck it is that.  If not then it may be difficult to determine whether
> it is the router or the PC if you haven't got something else to plug
> in to test it.

Okay, I'll try it. Now I have to wait for the error to occur again. 

I could buy another cable, and try plugging my laptop in...

Bye
V.W.