Weird Things Happening With My Vista Laptop When I try to connect to network
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Puzzling one (for me anyway!)
Im seeing some odd behaviour from my Toshiba Laptop when I connect it to my home network.
If the NIC is set to Auto Negoctiation, or 100Mbs the connection status cycls between "Network cable unplugged" and "Enabled".
If it is set to 10Mbs it connects to my Belkin ROuter however the Status is showing as "Rear Repeater" and although declared speed is 10Mbs it feel VERY slow.
The odd thing is that although I do have a device on the network called "Rear Repeater" that is not the router that my pc is plugged into.
I suspect it is something to do with one of the settings on the NIC Properties. However many of the options I have not seen before and do not know what they mean, or what the implications are of changing them.
The NIC is a realtek RTL8101E.
Does anyone know why my laptop may be "seeing" a connection to my repeater rather than my router, and does anyone know where I can get a list of the configuration settings for my NIC and what they mean?
Puzzling one (for me anyway!)
Im seeing some odd behaviour from my Toshiba Laptop when I connect it to my home network.
If the NIC is set to Auto Negoctiation, or 100Mbs the connection status cycls between "Network cable unplugged" and "Enabled".
If it is set to 10Mbs it connects to my Belkin ROuter however the Status is showing as "Rear Repeater" and although declared speed is 10Mbs it feel VERY slow.
The odd thing is that although I do have a device on the network called "Rear Repeater" that is not the router that my pc is plugged into.
I suspect it is something to do with one of the settings on the NIC Properties. However many of the options I have not seen before and do not know what they mean, or what the implications are of changing them.
The NIC is a realtek RTL8101E.
Does anyone know why my laptop may be "seeing" a connection to my repeater rather than my router, and does anyone know where I can get a list of the configuration settings for my NIC and what they mean?
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Update. I disconnected the rear repeater, rebooted the router and reconnected the laptop. This time it connects at 100Mbs but still claims a status of "rear repeater" Very Odd Indeed!!
Instead of dynamic ip allocation try manual ip allocation.
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Can you talk me through your logic?
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Update - rear repeater is the name of the network. It must have defaulted to that at some point. It is connecting correctly to the router. So all is well now thanks for all help
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The port is confirmed ok by trying a different laptop, the cable is confirmed OK by trying a different laptop.
So I think the problem may be related to the fact that the status on connection sayd "Rear Repeater" or one of the NIC settings.