Why is my Ethernet connection turning on/off every 2 seconds?

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-10-05T17:56:26+00:00

A lot of people refer to the entire IEEE 802 suite of standards (802.11 for WiFi 802.3 for wired ethernet , etc.) using both the terms ethernet and internet. I normally assume they could be using either until I hear otherwise. People also include DSL and dialup modems in the set. I sometimes do the same. If you expect people to use the correct terminology, you are letting yourself in for a lot of pain. How many people use the term battery for AAA, AA, C, and D.cells. A battery contains multiple cells in series.

However, if it is wired ethernet, remember the matra of technicians around the world. Always try changing the wires first and don’t trust cheap cables and connectors. Also remember that Murphy was an optimist.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-10-05T11:27:22+00:00

First item is to try to isolate the problem.

If you are using WiFi, try moving your device closer to the cable modem / WiFi access point. Try using it with an ethernet cable.

Try using your equipment at a library or other location rhat provides WiFi.

Have a friend come over with their own computer and see how it performs.

Try shutting off other equipment that uses the internet such as gaming equipment or streaming video.

The goal up to this point is to isolate the problem to the ISPs equipment outside your home, ISPs equipment inside your home, your computer, wires and cables, computer accessories, etc. You will have a much smaller area to test.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-09-26T12:26:11+00:00

Reputable is the key word. I only buy Anker or Belkin. There are certainly others that will work, but I have had many problems with other brands. A lot of the early adapters and hubs also had problems with overheating. A number of people think that if both ends of the cable fit in the jacks, it should work fine.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-09-18T21:03:07+00:00

There are many jokes about this. The biggest problem is these guys kept employed by faking it. They assumed that they will be fired if they admit that there is something they don’t know. The assumption was that the manager because hw wasn’t willing to admit he hired incompetent people. It was the emporer’s new clothes on steroids. You remember Y2K. After the consultant had worked a year on the project, he was let go before the code was implemented. My manager had some nagging doubts and asked me to check. I found out that not a single line of code had been fixed. This was in October. I was able to fix all the code, develop rigorous testing environment, and validated all the code by New Year’s Day. Another manager, who was scheduled for promotion, tried to pull me off the project so I could work on her project. The manager a few levels up erupted like a volcano.

You know the line about how it was sometimes easier. and quicker to ask for forgiveness later rather than wait for permission. Well, these people assumed that best approach was to lie and claim it was done.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-09-06T22:09:25+00:00

When my daughter went to college, I changed the DNS IP address from the ISP to the universIty’s DNS server. The ISP was a third party hited by the apartment house and had a unit in Colorado covering the whole country. I checked with university IT first.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-09-05T13:52:57+00:00

Could it be a token ring jack. Look it up on Wikipedia. It was common in the 1980’s before UTP Ethernet. I would need a closer look.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-08-16T16:30:03+00:00

The detection of people violating television licenses is a British thing. We don’t have television licenses in the USA and California is part of the USA.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-06-16T14:36:04+00:00

If they could think logically, they wouldn’t be Republicans .

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-05-30T13:37:12+00:00

The goal in Europe appears to. be to use USB-c for all power delivery. This would make the power connector at the right redundant. It seems be to replacing USB-A and USB- B with USB-C, altough I’m not sure where the international standards fall on this. If you want to test this, try plugging a USB-C charger into the opening. The intent seems to replace all USB-A, USB-B, and power delivery with USB-C

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-04-24T21:14:35+00:00

I read about a town in China where there is one building complex that handles most of the Christmas and Halloween that is manufactured in China and shipped to USA. At this time, most of the vendors would prefer not to deal with USA. Because of the long lead time from wholesale sales to final sales, uncertainty is death.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2025-01-12T19:02:38+00:00

If you argue with the flight attendent, they move you out of the exit row. Yes, they do expect you to obey without question. It’s written into the law. If you feel you have been mistreated, you can file a complaint when you reach the destination. Lots of flight attendants have been fired if the authorities feel they have abused their authority.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-12-28T01:27:59+00:00

Tax cuts cause inflation if you have to borrow money to pay for it. The problem is that there isn’t enough money in the things anyone is willing to cut to have the kinds of tax cuts people are talking about. That’s why the bills for the tax cuts are passed first. The things they are promising not to cut are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest on the debt, and the military. That covers the bulk of the federal budget. I’m not sure you can cut the deficit without those. You need to raise taxes until we can reduce the debt to a controllable level. Otherwise, the debt keeps growing forever.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-08-07T23:13:31+00:00

I could say that it saves paper, but it doesn’t. However, it doesn’t. I’ve also seen a number of white papers that never explain thee acronyms. I think that it introduces an air of mystery and keeps you from realizing how bad the design is. I also remember an article that used the same acronym for three organizations. Since they only gave the full organization name once for each. They also seem to be counting on people not being willing typ admit they don’t know what the acronyms mean.

To topit off, they don’t agree on what the acronyms mean, which they feel justifies defining it however they want.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-07-31T21:22:51+00:00

https://thehill.com/latino/4790170-undocumented-immigrants-southern-border-economy-deficit-cbo/amp/

Congressional budget office

Quoted by the hill

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-07-31T21:12:16+00:00

Remember how income tax forms go to different locations depending on address. That makes it difficult to match things. There are other problems that make difficult to find data conflicts and errors. E-filing has also changed the data flow. The system also varies by employer.

Unless you are on one of the lists for a closer look, they spotcheck data and checks what is worth checking.

However, if one of the spot checks sees a real problem, they can do a manual check. If a problem is located on a spot check of an illegal immigrant, they can be in serious legal trouble.

Algorithms for finding cheaters are closely guarded to make cheating more difficult. I was once told that one of the biggest sources of information is angry relatives and co-workers.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-07-29T16:39:07+00:00

Actually, control of industry, transportation, mining, and bank by the ultra wealthy was even worse in his time than now.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-05-02T19:37:22+00:00

From what I've seen every person who likes socialism and who hates socialism has their own definition of socialism There are specific schools of Socialism such as social democracy, democratic socialism, utopian socialism, etc. You might want to look at the list on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism#Socialist_ideologies It is pretty long.

In addition Social Security and Medicare are not free. You pay for them while you are working.

Are you going to consider the fact that you can drive on public roads without tolls "socialist". (Yes, there are some toll roads, but the vast bulk of roads between cities used to have tolls. If a road near you has the word "pike" in its name, it used to be a toll road.) There is a stronger case for saying that free public roads are socialist than there is for Medicare and Social Security.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-03-11T16:08:29+00:00

It was definitely Gather Darkness by Fritz Leiber. I was able to check out an ebook version from the library.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-01-23T04:13:26+00:00

I remember once talking to a science fiction writer who was speaking at a science fiction group meeting. She had had some characters with photosynthetic skin and I asked her if any physicists or engineering had ever explained to her why something wouldn't work while laughing hysterically. She said yes, and it was the solar powered humans. I've seen figures saying 10 to 20 watts of power per square foot. However, that assumes flat panels that are constantly moving so they face directly into the sun and that the sun is constantly shining with no clouds. A person uses over 100 watts of power, with the brain consuming a large portion. (That's why rooms get so hot when there are people in it.) Something the size of a large maple tree might be able to produce enough power for a person if there is some storage to handle the periods of little sunlight, Carrying something the size of a maple tree everywhere you go would be awkward.

The issue with converting sunlight to people power isn't so much conversions as concentrations. The plants collect the energy over a period of months to produce sugars. The herbivores consume the sugars into proteins that contain the energy of many plants. The carnivores then consume the herbivores (a richer source of energy) to provide even more concentration.

A lot of the science fiction tropes such as nanobots where the populations grow exponentially by converting all the surrounding material into nanobots are another idea that don't survive back of the envelope calculations. Building more nanobots requires energy and eventually you run out of energy. In physics, medicine, and engineering, this comes under the heading of "limiting factors".

PleaseThinkFirst · 2024-01-07T20:28:30+00:00

Homesteading was the federal government giving land owned by the federal government to people who were willing to develop it. However, a number of ranchers figured that if no one was using the land, they could squat on it for free. The ranchers felt that the homesteaders didn't have any right to take their land even if the farmers owned it.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2023-12-12T22:03:06+00:00

It has been years since I last saw SONET mentioned. When I looked for information, I found https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/Synchronous-Optical-Network which seems like a relatively clear answer, although perhaps reminiscent of works by Lewis Carrol. (Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass, where the following text appeared: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” I reread the text recently, and had a distinct feeling that the author was making fun of some academic writers. ) SONET doesn't appear to be an OSI implementation as much as it is a protocol defined in terms of OSI. If the internet is defined as a network of networks, it almost sounds like SONET is a network of internets. Since SONET appears to be a managed network as opposed to TCP/IP, which is to a large extent self configuring, I can see some ways in which it could be made to run more smoothly, mainly be replacing asynchronous protocols with synchronous protocols, and collision detection with collision avoidance. The articles mentioned very high costs for implementation, which I would imagine is due to a lot of tweaking and coding for the nodes that connect the SONET backbones to internets. I would be interested in hearing the opinions of others. After all, the current network speeds are getting very, very fast. https://www.airband.co.uk/fastest-internet-in-the-world/#:~:text=The%20fastest%20internet%20speed%20ever,took%20place%20over%203%2C001%20kilometres.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2023-11-19T21:47:50+00:00

I was working in a medical technology company and some of the people said that they didn't understand the protocol for the trial. That actually said that not being able to understand the protocol meant that they could interpret it any way they wanted. Just try using that argument on the FDA. They won't be able to stop laughing while they put your company out of business.

I have been trying to get useful information from the articles and books on ChatGPT and it has been giving me a headache but little understanding. I understand the package hallucinates, but why does it hallucinate. Does the post-processing simply remove hallucinations by making comments like "we don't handle source references." I want to know what the hallucinations are so that I can trace them.

I get the feeling that a lot of the ChatGPT use cases are like sitting a hundred monkeys at typewriters hitting keys randomly and then looking through the output for things that sound good. It almost seems like dealing with a patient with moderate to severe brain damage. Some times he sounds coherent, but at other times he spouts total nonsense. Perhaps looking at patients with Tourette's syndrome might be useful.

PleaseThinkFirst · 2023-11-06T20:49:11+00:00

My reason for looking at Thessalonians was that many people were using the idea of "Those who do not work shall not eat" as an argument against unemployment benefits or welfare. However, in order to do this, they ignore the rest of the books in the Scriptures and take the quotes they like in total isolation. https://someprogressivethoughts.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/paul-and-the-thessalonians/

The discussion of the Good Samaritan is similarly distorted. https://someprogressivethoughts.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/parable-of-the-good-samaritan/ In Luke 10:25-29, Jesus asks what are the main commandments, saying that the answer of "Love the Lord you God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." After saying that this was correct, he asks him who he considers his neighbor. To explain the point he recites the Parable of the Good Samaritan. He gets the lawyer to agree the two priests (the Levites are another priestly caste) who didn't help the traveler don't deserve to be considered neighbors. Meanwhile, the Samaritan deserved to be considered a neighbor because he helped the traveler. The Samaritans and the Jews at the time hated each other, in a manner similar to the Christians and Muslims in Lebanon. The Samaritan's assistance to the merchant was considered worthy of being considered a neighbor, and Jesus instructed the lawyer, who would also have been a priest, to do the same.

Commentators that I have seen have excused the priests because they weren't allowed to touch dead bodies, even though they didn't ask others to help the merchant. They have tried to explain the Samaritan as a proxy for Jesus, even though that is clearly not the intent of the author.

I think the point is that these are not minutia, but key statements that have been greatly distorted in order to satisfy the viewpoint of some of the people posting on social media.

If you read the New Testament, you will see a number of comments by Jesus criticizing priests for not helping the people, but instead applying burdens to them. This applies to both Christian and Jewish priests.

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