(Solved) Internet is dying

[Colin Law]

On 27 October 2017 at 12:43, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've connected my desktop to the router with the new cable, for some
> 17 hours now. (Had to squeeze the cable....) The laptop isn't involved
> now, and there habe been no occurrences in the output of ping at all.
>
> I don't know, what had been wrong. Is it the cable? The cable only?
> It seemed like the router was broken.

Have you got any evidence at all that is incompatible with the problem
being caused by a faulty cable?  If it is that it is most likely an
intermittent joint in one of the connectors. I think I suggested that
as a good candidate right at the start. If you have no evidence to the
contrary and it continues to work then chuck out the old one and get
another new one as a spare so next time you get an intermittent fault
you can start by swapping the cables.

>
> I'll leave it at that, although there are unanswered questions, and
> contradictions.

Such as?

>
> Thank you, to Xen and Colin Law, amongst others, who helped me.

Glad to have helped, if indeed it turns out I have :)  There is still
time for it to fail again.

Colin