Hi, I am having some problems with my home wireless network since blowing a fuse two nights ago. Heres what happened: I am on my main PC, which is directly wired to the cable modem and wireless router which BTW is the WRT54GC. I go to print a 5 page document. Half way through printing page 2 of said document a fuse is blown. Everything shut off in my basement, so I go to the breaker and flick it back on. Everything comes back on fine, no errors or anything. After Windows XP finished booting up again I noticed that the network connection icon down in my taskbar to the lower right now has an X through it and says "A network cable is unplugged". So I tried rebooting. Then I tried power cycling the PC-Router-Modem. Then I tried unplugging the coax cable and plugging in back in. I just tried switching ethernet cables. None of this worked. Now the interesting part here is that the other two PC's on my home network remain online and fully functional with normal speeds. These are on the network wirelessly. The Router and Modem both appear fine, with the normal lights being active and stuff. So what has happened here? It would appear that the problem lies in that main PC, the one directly wired to the router right? Could the blown fuse maybe of messed up the network card in that PC?? (fried it or something) Please help!
your able to connect them wirelessly but not through cat5e cable? Is that correct? It looks like maybe the hardware onboard or network port has been blown. If seen that so many times, Have you tried adding another network card (hardwire) and trying it then? network ports are always in a "standby" even when you think your machine is off, it might have just taken a surge and blown.
