THIS is wildly pissing me the hell off now.
What happens is that on a random (but still happening multiple times a day) occasion that little balloon will pop up on the taskbar.
Half the time nothing will happen and active connections don't skip a beat. The other half of the time everything dies and disconnects and it takes a few seconds for the network interface to go back to being connected and for everything to sign back in. If however you're doing something like file transfer or a remote session that all dies and you have to start over again. If you're in a game you have to reconnect and you can forget about hosting anything....
I've replaced EVERYTHING hardware related. I've used three different network cables (two custom made and one pre-fabricated), I've changed ports on the switch and even bypassed the switch and gone directly to the router. I've even replaced my motherboard (my last 865PE bit the dust so I bought another) as to make sure it's not a glitchy NIC. Yet after all that it persists. It worked flawlessly when I was living in Vancouver. After I was setup here with my parents again I did a fresh install of XP. THAT is when the problems started to happen. Yes I have uninstalled and reinstalled the network driver. What the hell gives??
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