Wired Internet Connection Freezes

[pbeesley]

Hi Guys, hoping someone can help me with this one because its doing my head in.

For the past week or so my internet connection has been freezing for about 30seconds to a minute every so often.

A ping request running in the background right now shows no errors trying to get out, it just doesn't do anything while the network is frozen (I've been running a ping to google since I started the PC and in 385 ping requests it's frozen 8 times.

This computer is fine when using windows :S

Things I've tried:

• A full reinstall (with a seperate /home that was left unformatted)
• Updating driver to use r8168 instead of r8169 (i've had no issue with this drive since 12.04)
• Leaving PC on for hours and then running a ping command. (no difference)

What Information should I be giving you guys?

P.S the only thing that has changed since this was work is I put in another 8gb of ram (now 16gb total) and I put an LED light strip into my case

Thanks

[pbeesley]

Ok so I just tried using (and currently am) using a live cd. The connection is fine :S even using the dodgey r8169 drivers :S

Could something in my /home be screwing this up?

[pbeesley]

I created a new user to see if it was /home settings some home. No dice

Been running a ping tool for the last 20mins 79% successful

Any ideas?

[pbeesley]

no one

[iponeverything]

in grub -- boot to an older kernel.

[pbeesley]

well i tried reinstalling the entire OS, did nothing to help