Bizzare night with my DSL router and wireless card.

[Death Metal Moe]

It doesn't seem like these 2 things could be linked, but I issue this short story to Wackbaggers to see if I'm wrong.

Last night I came home, flipped on my comp and the internet was running like shit. It came on suddenly then slowed down to a crawl and stopped. Resetting the modem and my computer did little. My desktop is wirelessly connected to my wireless router/modem thing that Verizon sent me as is my laptop and my mother's laptop in another part of the house.

All 3 won't connect to the net and the Internet light on my modem wont light up now. I even hit the dreaded Factory Reset buttong, but no good.

I call Verizon and get it working, had to reconfigure something. Now my laptop and my mother's laptop connect fine but my desktop won't. I spend 2 hours uninstalling and reinstalling the fuckign wireless card, physically removing it everytime I try, but nothing. So I get a long cord and hardwire my desktop to the modem. Works fine.

Then less than a half hour later, the fucking thing starts slowing down again to the point where WoW crashed out and my modem light red lighted itself.

I call again and the guy runs some shit on his end, has me flip a few cords and suddenly it's great. It's been working fine ever since.

My question is, could my dying and now dead wireless card in my computer be somehow related to my slow internet connection that had to be re-configured to start working right again? It makes no sense to me but since the 2 things happened on the same night it makes me wonder.

Thank you for reading all that if you did.

[thelord68]

The wireless card could have caused the problems if it was attempting to connect to the router but was unable to because of an internal fault. It would start monopolizing the limited processing power of the router, eseentially you performed a DoS attack on yourself.

As far as reconfiguring the router, once you did a factory reset, I am assuming you wiped out the login info for your account from the router so it would have had to be re-entered. Finally, one of your cords may have been a crossover cable (wired differently). Most current routers and switches now automatically correct for this on some or all of the ports, but not always.

[Teddy]

It doesn't seem like these 2 things could be linked, but I issue this short story to Wackbaggers to see if I'm wrong.

Last night I came home, flipped on my comp and the internet was running like shit. It came on suddenly then slowed down to a crawl and stopped. Resetting the modem and my computer did little. My desktop is wirelessly connected to my wireless router/modem thing that Verizon sent me as is my laptop and my mother's laptop in another part of the house.

All 3 won't connect to the net and the Internet light on my modem wont light up now. I even hit the dreaded Factory Reset buttong, but no good.

I call Verizon and get it working, had to reconfigure something. Now my laptop and my mother's laptop connect fine but my desktop won't. I spend 2 hours uninstalling and reinstalling the fuckign wireless card, physically removing it everytime I try, but nothing. So I get a long cord and hardwire my desktop to the modem. Works fine.

Then less than a half hour later, the fucking thing starts slowing down again to the point where WoW crashed out and my modem light red lighted itself.

I call again and the guy runs some shit on his end, has me flip a few cords and suddenly it's great. It's been working fine ever since.

My question is, could my dying and now dead wireless card in my computer be somehow related to my slow internet connection that had to be re-configured to start working right again? It makes no sense to me but since the 2 things happened on the same night it makes me wonder.

Thank you for reading all that if you did.

seams highly unlieky but it is possible as the previous poster posted.

[Death Metal Moe]

The wireless card could have caused the problems if it was attempting to connect to the router but was unable to because of an internal fault. It would start monopolizing the limited processing power of the router, eseentially you performed a DoS attack on yourself.

As far as reconfiguring the router, once you did a factory reset, I am assuming you wiped out the login info for your account from the router so it would have had to be re-entered. Finally, one of your cords may have been a crossover cable (wired differently). Most current routers and switches now automatically correct for this on some or all of the ports, but not always.

Oh I understand about the router reset. It puts it back to a factory default, with the wireless option turned off, no encryption and renames my network. I reset all that and none of my computers would connect, not even hard wired. They wouldn't even connect to it with no encryption, just as an open wireless point.

And the cord thing was just me taking the end plugged into to wall and flipping it around. So the router end was in the wall now and the wall end was in the router now. I basically thought he just made me do that to keep me busy as my router was off, but he told me there was a reason for it and it wasn't just busy work.

OH well, whatever it was seems to be gone now, and I'm just going to get a 20-30 foot cord for my desktop and hardwire into the router. It's faster anyway.