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by jribble

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The question again was why would two windows 2000 machines connected by a new Netgear DS-108 hub to a LAN line be kicked off the internet after 10 to 15 minutes of browsing. Furthermore, if I would open up more IE windows it would be kicked off also. We have two windows 2000 server machines connected to their own hub and both are not being used as a server, and also one windows 98 machine that never fails. Surpisingly the two so-called servers have no problem staying on the internet. I hope someone can help!

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by timthetoolman

It sounds like the hub could be faulty. Being new doesn't necessarily mean guaranteed to work...

Do both Win2K machines get kicked off at the same time? Or do you mean one gets kicked off and then if you open windows on the other it gets kicked off too? Which pretty much amount to the same thing.

Also remember that the browser will have cached information in it and so may appear to be working - so check a previously unvisited page to be sure.

Do they still have general network access once they've been kicked off? Say to the two servers you mentioned?

...and if they do still have access can you stress the links and hub by doing a couple of large file copies?

Do you lose only HTTP or can you ping the net?

How do you currently resolve it? Reboot the Win2K machines only?

We'll get there :-)

Cheers,
Tim.

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