When you had the problem could you always get on the Internet through the router, even when the computers could not see each other?  In my case, both computers always get on the Internet even when they can't see each other.  If the cable were bad, wouldn't the computer with the bad cable not be able to get on the Internet when it could not see the other computer? The Internet connection has not been dropped when they can't see each other.

>I had this problem with my network when I had an intermittent connection
>with a Cat5 cable between a router and one of my PC's.   It was connected
>enough that it worked mostly but occasionally the number of errors would
>through everything off including the router/hub. I'd have to power-off and
>re-initialize my router to get everything going again.  Since I replaced
>the cable about 6 months ago, it has worked perfectly for all machines on
>the network.
>
>Doug
>
>
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