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Wired LAN connection drops for a split second every few minutes

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March 21, 2014 11:57:38 PM

Hello everyone!
I'm recently having a problem with my network connection that just drives me insane.
I am connected to my router (NETGEAR VVG2000) using wired connection. My Network device is Realtek RTL8111E (On board one, Motherboard model is Gigabyte GA-P67X-UD3-B3).
Now, every few minutes (5-10, not always the same), the connection seems to drop for a split second (literally less than a second, really!) and reconnects. However, this split second seems to be enough to make most of the programs requiring network connection (Steam, Skype, Mumble and more) to completely lose connection. This is getting really annoying lately.
I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 bit.

Some things I found out:
- When it happens, the network icon on the taskbar briefly shows an error (Yellow triangle) and goes back to normal.
- This ONLY affects MY computer. I have other computers on the same network (connected using Wireless) and they work with no problems.
- I have made sure my Network adapter driver is up-to-date, as well as my Router firmware. I also installed all Windows updates.

I have tried many things but did not succeed so far. Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thank you very much and have a great day!
~Moti.

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March 22, 2014 5:45:28 AM

I know you have updated the driver. The date of the latest Win 8 driver on realtek's site is January 24, 2014, version 8.024. Is that the one you have?

http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?...

If the driver is good, then a bad cable would be my next suspect. Have you changed the cable?
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May 16, 2014 2:27:34 PM

Opalium said:
Hello everyone!
I'm recently having a problem with my network connection that just drives me insane.
I am connected to my router (NETGEAR VVG2000) using wired connection. My Network device is Realtek RTL8111E (On board one, Motherboard model is Gigabyte GA-P67X-UD3-B3).
Now, every few minutes (5-10, not always the same), the connection seems to drop for a split second (literally less than a second, really!) and reconnects. However, this split second seems to be enough to make most of the programs requiring network connection (Steam, Skype, Mumble and more) to completely lose connection. This is getting really annoying lately.
I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 bit.

Some things I found out:
- When it happens, the network icon on the taskbar briefly shows an error (Yellow triangle) and goes back to normal.
- This ONLY affects MY computer. I have other computers on the same network (connected using Wireless) and they work with no problems.
- I have made sure my Network adapter driver is up-to-date, as well as my Router firmware. I also installed all Windows updates.

I have tried many things but did not succeed so far. Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thank you very much and have a great day!
~Moti.


Did you ever fix this? I am experiencing this too and my hair is going to be ripped out soon. Thanks!
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August 28, 2014 2:16:24 AM

Err, I'm having the same issue too. This is a freshly built PC too.

GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 with a Killer E2200 / Atheros AR8161 Ethernet chipset.
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

Tried the following so far but all have failed:

- Tried replacing Killer E2200 driver with Atheros driver (no bloat)
- Removing all potentially offending software that might be associated with it
(earlier I had some weird permissions error related to a Adobe Acrobat DLL changing all the permissions in my user AppData directory)
- Tried all the "easy fixes"
- Tried resetting TCP/IP stack via "netsh winsock reset"
- Tried rechecking permissions/ACL's on system files still to no avail....
- System restores have all failed becuz windows sux (some reason it doesn't want to complete
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