On 17/03/18 17:16, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 4:24:50 PM UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On 17/03/18 16:04, Graham Easterling wrote:
My PC won’t connect to the internet, which is a pain.

Any particular reason?


I wish I knew. I used to work in Pc support, but this has got me a
bit baffled. It’s one of those intermittent things. The router seems
fine, the signals Ok, the line speeds variable but it always has
been. Use a USB network adaptor, same issues. Tried turning off,
unplugging, all the normal things, + 101 other things. The lines been
checked, tried different sockets. You name it I’ve probably tried it.
It seems to be its either a fault on the pC other than the network
card or the router doing something strange which is upsetting the PC
but not the iPad or android phone.

If anyone’s got any brilliant ideas they will be appreciated, but be
aware I’ve cleared history, run all sorts of checks, defragged the
drive etc. Etc. Etc. It’s been getting progressively worse, rather
than relating to a particular update. I even took the PC to a
neighbour, and it worked fine, but when I brought it back it worked
fine here - for a day! So that proved nothing.


I sometimes have wireless connection troubles but they're usually just
down to Broadcom being unhelpful to Linux and me installing a new kernel
before the updated driver had been built.

My router offers 5G as well as 4G so that has given me an alternative if
the performance on one of those seems a bit off. That needed a new
wireless card to take advantage of 5G, of course.

Your mention of defragging gave me the shivers as I remembered having to
do that years ago when I used Windows regularly. Used to have my
installation disks to hand as I usually had to re-install the system as
defragging eventually crashed it.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. Web-site: http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
"There is nothing more frustrating than playing hide and seek with a
deaf wolf." [Benton Fraser]
OS: Linux [openSUSE Tumbleweed]