Posted on 12/05/2024 3:06:23 PM PST by knarf
We're forced to use COMCAST . . . (got THAT out of the way)
My wife's computer has been hooked into our internet wirelessly with an etherneg plug for a couple of years.
We had an electrical outage this afternoon for about an hour and a half and when it came back on, after going through some set-up things, I got up and running with no problems.
Then Liza came home.
She cannot get connected and I've tried the shut down and wait thing to no avail.
Diagnostic says the ethernet connection is what has failed.
Can that USB type ethernet plug have been fried ?
You are almost alone on this thread for identifying the setup.
You appear to be saying that her computer has no internal WiFi adapter card, rather something like an external dongle [mentioned by ImJustAnotherOkie in post #11].
You can examine her machine with Device Manager for the presence of an internal wireless adapter card, if you don’t know if one is present.
It would be under “Network adapters”, something like an 802.11n device.
You could also move your router [mine is pretty portable] back to her computer and direct-jump from her ethernet port to the router ethernet port with your ethernet cable to test her ethernet port.
Of course, if it works, you’ll lose your link [Queen’s Rights!!] unless you have a working wireless card in your computer. :)
Windows 10, and I’ve run the diagnostic three or four times always resulting in an ethernet not connected.
Ok your terminology is a bit off l think your wife is probably using a USB/wifi adapter to hook to the cable router wirelessly. Replacements are cheap and usually will walk you through the setup.
Anything with a chip or two can naturally degrade over time. Even solid state memory degrades over time and rewrites. Every time a device powers up the CMOS is read over and over and this alone can eventually degrade that functional logic.
My computer w/the cable operates perfectly . . . my WIFE’S on the other hand is not connected to the internet and it is HER computer that utilizes the plug.
yes . . . wasn’t I obvious enough ?
Can that USB type ethernet plug have been fried ?
Oh, yes. But it's only one of many things that might be going on.
just didn't know if the plug could get fried and it IS an easy fix (above)
Easy fix? Depends. If laptop, new motherboard. If desktop, install a NIC in an expansion slot and use that. Or, USB ethernet.
MY computer is connected with an ethernet cable . . . . HERS at the other end of our mobile home is connected via the ethernet plug.
Huh, what?
What do you mean by "ethernet plug"?
I HAVE SAID, my computer is connected by a cable and hers is (not) connected with the ethernet plug, per Windows diagnostic(s)
I’ve accepted that explanation via this thread.
Hers is NETGEAR.
Ethernet cables don’t get fried. There’s either a short or open and if it’s an older cable it’s probably an open meaning a broken wire. Ethernet cable testers are cheap at a Lowe’s, Home Depot or Walmart but in reality a new Cable is probably cheaper.
Cables do get damaged, as well as the modular cable ends.
A decent Ethernet tester, the last time I bought one, cost me about $100 at Menards. Includes some other features that are handy, like tone generator (for tracing cable). Don;t buy the el cheapo testers. Not worth it.
(A good tester, like the soft the folks on the wifi side of my old employer use to validate cables runs, would cost thousands.)
Both are old school PC’s with mices.
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Is your wife’s computer a laptop? If so, carry it over to your computer and plug your ethernet cable into her computer.
If that works it probably confirms that the wifi dongle is dead.
It’s also possible that the wireless portion of your router burned out. Do you have any other wireless items in your home such as Ring doorbell, or wireless thermostat that you can check?
If not, what you are calling a ‘plug’ is officially named a ‘USB wireless adapter’. They are quite inexpensive from Amazon, eBay, or even Walmart. They are usually ‘plug and play, so they’re easy to change.
That’s confusing. You’re connected, I’m assuming via Ethernet to a cable box that supplies Internet or WiFi to the cable box WiFi Router?
You’re wife is or isn’t connected via Ethernet or WiFi to the cable box?
If there’s no c Ethernet connection for your wife then it’s a wifi problem.
I’d shut her computer down, restart your cable box and give it 3 or 4 minutes then turn her computer back on.
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