Something Had a Hold of My Internet Connection

[easysurfer]

Experienced an odd occurrence with my broadband connection today. Did my daily surfing in the morning, reading the news, going here, Facebook and such. Then took a break to do some housework. When came back to do my afternoon surfing (yeah, a lot of time online), something had a hold of my internet connection.

I could see the lights on the router and hard drive indicator flickering. Instead of restarting the router and cable modem, I shut down the PC. As soon as I did that, I could connect no probably with my phone. When I rebooted the PC, the router/hard disk lights started flickering again and I couldn't connect. Then I shut down again and could connect with my smartphone.

I then expected to see a ransomware screen or something pop up but didn't wait to find out. Each day around 7 in the morning, I have an image backup of my system done so reverted back to that. In 3 minutes time, restored and back to the way things are since the morning.

But, the lockup was strange.

 

[MichaelB]

Maybe you have some updates taking place on your modem, router, or SW on your PC.

 

[GrayHare]

Is wireless enabled on your router? Perhaps someone nearby was using it?

 

[FIREmenow]

Maybe you have some updates taking place on your modem, router, or SW on your PC.

That's my guess - possibly your latest birthday present from Mr. Gates..... now it has to start over

 

[Which Roger]

It could be that your router was assigning the same internal IP address to both devices. I had that happen a while back. A friend's smart phone conflicted with my web cam. Sometimes the web cam would be inaccessible, sometimes the smart phone would be very sluggish.

 

[easysurfer]

That's my guess - possibly your latest birthday present from Mr. Gates..... now it has to start over

Very well might be. Well, I'm off to do some grocery shopping so when I come back, I'll see if I have a working computer or not .

 

[grasshopper]

Today is the monthly Microsoft update day, I started Ms G @ 6am it seemed to take until 11am.