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cable modem better with usb?

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justride

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i have to use usb for my cable modem because asus sucks at making motherboard, network cards just do not work with this board, as does the onboard lan, does anyone have anything good or bad to say about usb connections to cable modems?
 
Just from personal experience, using USB for networking has a higher CPU overhead (uses more CPU cycles) than just using a regular network card. For as many people using Asus mobos around here (and I've used a lot of Asus mobos in the past), I think that your "Asus sucks" comment is pretty off base. Perhaps you just don't know what you are doing.
 
justride said:
...network cards just do not work with this board
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OK, what? how can ONLY network cards not work? How exactly are they 'not working'? And if you have onboard LAN that hasn't been struck by lightning, chances are that's working as well

my guess is you're configuring some network settings incorrectly therefore both the onboard and PCI network cards fail to work...

as for the USB, i've found it tends to be a resource hog, as well as a bandwidth stealer... i've set up two different Cable modems with USB at first, and changed to cat5 later, and i've found the upload/download performance was better with cat5 in both cases...
 
Any network connection via USB pretty universally sucks.

There is < no > reason you can't use your ASUS with a network card or the on board network ports. I have lots of ASUS boards here in the lab at work and at least one at home. They all talk ethernet.

De-bug your network connection issues.....you'll be very glad you did....:cool:

Regards - B.B.S.
 
i have done everything i know how to, got 3 different bright house tech reps in here to check it, and talked to microsoft, and roadrunner numerous times on the phone, the only thing i can possibly think is going on, is that its a bad board, this is my 3rd a8v board, i rmad the first 2 for different reasons, the only thing in my device manager that is not working is the raid controller, other than that everything seems peachy, but no network connection,
 
As mentioned above, rewind back to your NIC troubleshooting and start over from there.
ASUS is one of the best (if not THE best) mobo manufacturer out there, so we are surely dealing with poor troubleshooting from your side. You definitely want to use the Ethernet port of your Cable modem. You're crazy if you use the USB cable with an Ethernet-capable modem.

Good luck,

Walter
 
When you try a NIC, disable the onboard LAN in the BIOS. You may also need to enable 1394 even if you don't use it to make it work and also to make the onboard LAN work. I have seen some funky stuff with BIOS dependencies.

Update your drivers.
 
everything worked great, then i switched the computer from one desk to another, and nothing will show up any more, the drivers have been installed over and over again, and windows has been installed over 10 times, if there is someone in tampa that thinks im still an idiot, i will give yyou $100 to fix it
 
fine whatever im going to reinstall windows one more time, and then install all the drivers, and then you can call me an idiot
 
....nobody called you anything; you're getting solid advice.

Don't get completely stressed out over this. Hey, if you want to run a USB adapter it will work, and now you'll know it's not going to be quite as fast as a PCI / PCIe network adapter. It's a choice.

But - if it were me, I'd want to know what's up with my system. An ethernet card is a very basic add in card. Most are known out of the box at a functional level to most OS's. Not being able to use one is a pretty serious issue, IMHO......

This is supposed to be fun, remember.....??....:D

Regards - B.B.S.
 
sorry guys i was acting like an asshole, any time i have ever had a problem it was resolved after coming here, now it seems that everything works perfect, the only difference is that now when windows is installed it installed internet explorer where as the lat times it did not, so maybe it has something to do with that? i always had to install ie after windows was put on. thanks guys, and sorry for being a jerk
 
Is your modem a motorola surfboard by chance? Mine can't connect to (a known good) ethernet either.
 
Don't have a spare PCI slot, nor a spare ethernet plug (running a router on the port) so I'm forced to run my SB5100 on the USB port. It's not that bad. I still get virtually identical performance +/-1-2% out of it (both upload and download) and the CPU hit isn't all that bad (maybe a couple percent sometimes), so if worse comes to worse you CAN run it on the USB without troubles. Though once in a blue moon you may have to restart the computer, depending on which USB controller you plug it into (generally intel's are more reliable, etc.)

However, as stated in this thread... Ethernet is always always the best solution, if you can do it. It takes no CPU time, and runs its best on the ethernet plug, so even though it's not much of a gain, it still IS a gain. So if you can fix it, definately go that route.
 
kleptik said:
Is your modem a motorola surfboard by chance? Mine can't connect to (a known good) ethernet either.
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I have the surfboard my self, i use the NIC all the time...gose to my router..and before i had wireless for ym lappy, i would plug a 20foot USB into it and go from behind my TV (where the modem is) to my couch and chill, watch TV and surf the web via USB!

both work well for me...even at the same time... lol
 
justride said:
sorry guys i was acting like an asshole, any time i have ever had a problem it was resolved after coming here, now it seems that everything works perfect, the only difference is that now when windows is installed it installed internet explorer where as the lat times it did not, so maybe it has something to do with that? i always had to install ie after windows was put on. thanks guys, and sorry for being a jerk
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So this means you are up and running smoothly? I am confused on IE, are you running XP? If so it should install IE automatically as it is integrated into the OS.

As for being a jerk, I took it more that you were stressed out over it, no worries bro, been there myself.
 
now it doesent work again

once windows automatically detected the raid controllers it shut my ethernet down, what the hell is going on?
 
justride said:
now it doesent work again

once windows automatically detected the raid controllers it shut my ethernet down, what the hell is going on?
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ok.. what do you mean it shut your ethernet down? is your onboard NIC disabled (red or yellow exclamation point in device manager)?

is it enabled, but not transmitting/receiving?

how exactly are you testing this? how do you know the NIC is bad and not the modem?

can you log into the modem? usually it's something like 192.168.0.1 or whatever IP/URL your modem manufacturer chose...
 
What OS are you running?

Usually it works like this:
1. Get your computer to its basic config. You need a mobo, CPU, memory, a hard drive, and a video card to get the OS installed.
2. Install OS.
3. Install chipset drivers (i.e. the ones that came on a CD w/the mobo that include the ethernet drivers).
4. Install OS updates (i.e. SP2 for XP and all other patches).
5. Look in the Device Manager and see if anything is showing up as not having a driver (indicated by a yellow caution symbol).
6. Install latest drivers for video, sound etc.
7. If there are still issues, update to the latest BIOS for your mobo and install the latest chipset drivers from the Internet.
 
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