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BigAl.NZ@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Hoping that someone here could please help.
> 
> I am trying to help a friend setup a home network. They connect to the
> internet via a Belkin ADSL Modem which has a single ethernet port at
> the back. I suppose you could call it a Single port router.
> 
> They got given a D-Link 4 port router with wifi (DI-524 from memory),
> and this now sits between the PC (WinXP SP2) and the the Belkin ADSL
> modem. They also have a laptop which connects via the wifi (Vista).
> 
> The internet appears to work intermittently, it will go for varying
> lengths of time before you start to receive page cannot be displayed.
> 
> I have done the most basic of diagnosing when the connection went
> down:
> 
> 1. Could ping the D-Link on 192.168.0.1
> 2. Could ping the Belkin on 10.1.1.1
> 3. Could not ping a website, using the dns name or the IP (so it would
> appear not to be a DNS issuse)
> 4. IPCONFIG showed the PC having a IP assigned
> 
> Pictorially, the wired PC setup looks like:
> 
> <PC>----<D-Link router/wifi>----<Belkin>----<Internet>
> 
> I think (will have to confirm this) that when the internet stops
> working, I can plug the Belkin directly into the PC and it will work
> again, so it appears to be some sort of issue between the Belkin and
> the D-Link?
> 
> What other testing can I do?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Al

Open Device Manager, open the properties on your ethernet card, click 
the Power tab, and deselect "Allow the computer to turn off this device 
to save power".  If it's a USB port rather than an ethernet or NIC, make 
the same change to all the USB ports.

-- 
Joe   =o)