Windows 7 Loses Network Bridge On Reboot

ComputerDoctorComputerDoctor Kankakee, IL
edited March 2011 in Science & Tech
I have a eee pc box with Windows 7 Ultimate installed for the purpose of getting a Wireless internet connection and bridging to ethernet for the rest of my network.
I have been able to successfully bridge the network and it works fine until I reboot the PC. When it reboots I get a network connection from wireless fine, but it doesn't connect the ethernet adapter.

The first line in my network connections shows the ethernet (bridged) and my bridged connection, and the second line actually shows the USB wireless adapter (bridged).

Does anyone know how to preserve the bridged connection during reboot so that I don't have to go back in and delete the original bridge and re-bridge my network adapters?

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    Do you have any Apple software installed: Quicktime or iTunes?

    Bear with me...
  • ComputerDoctorComputerDoctor Kankakee, IL
    edited March 2011
    primesuspect wrote:
    Do you have any Apple software installed: Quicktime or iTunes?

    Bear with me...


    It's a fresh install of Windows 7 and I don't have either of those programs installed.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2011
    Okay, that eliminates that theory.

    Second question: Are you using the OEM drivers, drivers provided by Microsoft, or ...?
  • ComputerDoctorComputerDoctor Kankakee, IL
    edited March 2011
    primesuspect wrote:
    Okay, that eliminates that theory.

    Second question: Are you using the OEM drivers, drivers provided by Microsoft, or ...?

    Yes, OEM drivers for everything including the built in Ethernet card, but not for the USB wireless adapter. I used the driver from the Ralink disc that came with it.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2011
    Try going into Control Panel>Network Adapters Then in the toolbar at the top click on the advanced tool and go into the advanced settings. Then under the Adapters and Binding settings. Re-order your adapters from top to bottom in the order that they should connect and prioritize. It could be an issue that your bridge is trying to re-establish itself before a certain adapter is brought online and then breaking.
  • ComputerDoctorComputerDoctor Kankakee, IL
    edited March 2011
    kryyst wrote:
    Try going into Control Panel>Network Adapters Then in the toolbar at the top click on the advanced tool and go into the advanced settings. Then under the Adapters and Binding settings. Re-order your adapters from top to bottom in the order that they should connect and prioritize. It could be an issue that your bridge is trying to re-establish itself before a certain adapter is brought online and then breaking.

    I think this is it kryyst. I put them in order of wireless adapter 2, bridge, local area connection. It takes almost 4 minutes before my wireless router at the other end of the LAN shows that it has an internet connection, but at least it works. I'm not sure if it takes this long because there is a more optimal way to arrange the three adapters or because my processor is only a 1 GHz.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2011
    I wouldn't be surprised if your 1ghz processor is causing some speed issues. I'd say time to upgrade but then again it's very easy for me to spend your money :)

    However have you considered getting a wireless router to manage your connections instead of bridging it with your computer? You can pick up a pretty good wireless router these days for $50. Which based on what your describing sounds like $50 well spent for ignoring the frustration and headaches.
  • ComputerDoctorComputerDoctor Kankakee, IL
    edited March 2011
    kryyst wrote:
    I wouldn't be surprised if your 1ghz processor is causing some speed issues. I'd say time to upgrade but then again it's very easy for me to spend your money :)

    However have you considered getting a wireless router to manage your connections instead of bridging it with your computer? You can pick up a pretty good wireless router these days for $50. Which based on what your describing sounds like $50 well spent for ignoring the frustration and headaches.

    If this was a normal situation I would say you're correct, but my scenario is that I'm using an open wireless network in my neighborhood to bring the internet into my home network. If you're interested you can look at my article on how I did it. I've replaced my laptop with an EEE PC box that was free, and I changed out the hub for a wireless router so I could use my laptops wirelessly in the house. So in the end what I have is someone on the 192.168.1.x network which I've connected to and then a bridge to my own Wireless router which is serving up a 192.168.2.x network keeping the rest of my network out of the hosts network.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2011
    Interesting. You could still do this using something like a wireless game adapter. Just make sure it's got a strong enough antenna either by buy/building a high DB antenna/cantenna. Then you connect it to a switch, your computers to the switch and you are good to go.
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