My friend dialed up 1-800-MyComputerIsBroken and got me on the other end (as usual). The problem, a partially broken network adapter, you know when windows says your NIC is connected, but it just doesn’t seem to work reliably. In this case, my friend was unable to connect, or stay connected to World Of Warcraft (the horror). Short of replacing the NIC, my friend had tried most of the common stuff, like different network cable, trying a different computer with his normal network cable, plugging a different computer into the same port on the firewall, etc. My first thought was, maybe WoW got corrupted, but after my friend started browsing the web he noticed timeouts and other issues which led us to believe it was a wider problem.
I know I had come across some dos shell commands that is supposed to reset your NIC, so I set out to rediscover those commands. I was pretty sure [Scott] had posted something awhile back, and after a quick search, I had what I was looking for. The following commands are taken from Scott’s post:
1: ipconfig /flushdns
2: nbtstat -R
3: nbtstat -RR
4: netsh int reset all
5: netsh int ip reset
6: netsh winsock reset
While the post’s title makes it sound like it’s a Vista only fix, it did work for my friend who was running WinXP SP2. I had also come across another site that talks about some of the commonly used command line utilities.