Internet is dying - or is it..?

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2017 at 12:33, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My internet outages are back again. All that I've done is, to remove the laptop from the router, in the morning. I haven't touched my desktop's internet connection, which is over the old cable, like it was to begin with.
>
> Again I get "Destination Host Unreachable" messages from ping.
>
> To me, this is a hint, that the router is the thing that is broken. Do you agree?

Try the other ethernet cable with it plugged into the port on the
router that the laptop was plugged into. If it still fails then at
least you have ruled out the cable and the socket on the router.  The
fact that the laptop ran without issue makes it more likely it is the
PC, cable or socket.

Colin