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Tony1983
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Hi,
We're currently running Windows 10 on four of our machines here. I'd like to upgrade all the others from Windows 7, but there's a problem that seems to be occurring on every single one of the Windows 10 machines.
At seemingly random intervals (>1 hour-ish) the network connection gets interrupted. All that happens is any Explorer windows I have open that are pointing at any directory on a network drive suddenly close, and our Access Database crashes saying it's lost network connection. I then have to close the database down and start it back up again. It literally seems to be a split second drop in connectivity. None of our Windows 7 machines have this problem, but all of our Windows 10 ones do. It seems that only programmes that require a constant connection are affected (as I guess Word, Excel, etc store their temporary data locally when open, so are immune to temporary connection dropouts).
I've tried to see if the computers all do this all at the same time, but they do not, it occurs at different times. Internet connectivity seems unaffected.
I'm wondering if it's something set on Group Policy on our servers perhaps, that disconnects Win 10 machines after they've been connected for a set period of time or something?
This isn't a major issue, but it's really annoying - especially if you're in the middle of inputting something into the Access database or you have several Explorer windows open at once that you need to use a lot.
FYI we're running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on our file server.
I think drivers are unlikely to be the issue as the problem is not restricted to one machine. Similarly I don't think it's a faulty switch or the like, else all machines would suffer this problem. It is a problem isolated to all our Windows 10 machines only. It doesn't seem to be version specific either, as we've had this problem for quite a while - I've updated the Windows 10 machines and the problem persists. it's not a timeout issue either as I can be using the database and it'll happen.
I'm going to see if I can time the period between the dropouts to see if it's consistent. If it is, it's likely a server-side setting causing the issue.
Any help much appreciated
UPDATE: Seems to be once ever 1:40 (every 100 minutes) that it drops. So likely to be being triggered by something.
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We're currently running Windows 10 on four of our machines here. I'd like to upgrade all the others from Windows 7, but there's a problem that seems to be occurring on every single one of the Windows 10 machines.
At seemingly random intervals (>1 hour-ish) the network connection gets interrupted. All that happens is any Explorer windows I have open that are pointing at any directory on a network drive suddenly close, and our Access Database crashes saying it's lost network connection. I then have to close the database down and start it back up again. It literally seems to be a split second drop in connectivity. None of our Windows 7 machines have this problem, but all of our Windows 10 ones do. It seems that only programmes that require a constant connection are affected (as I guess Word, Excel, etc store their temporary data locally when open, so are immune to temporary connection dropouts).
I've tried to see if the computers all do this all at the same time, but they do not, it occurs at different times. Internet connectivity seems unaffected.
I'm wondering if it's something set on Group Policy on our servers perhaps, that disconnects Win 10 machines after they've been connected for a set period of time or something?
This isn't a major issue, but it's really annoying - especially if you're in the middle of inputting something into the Access database or you have several Explorer windows open at once that you need to use a lot.
FYI we're running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on our file server.
I think drivers are unlikely to be the issue as the problem is not restricted to one machine. Similarly I don't think it's a faulty switch or the like, else all machines would suffer this problem. It is a problem isolated to all our Windows 10 machines only. It doesn't seem to be version specific either, as we've had this problem for quite a while - I've updated the Windows 10 machines and the problem persists. it's not a timeout issue either as I can be using the database and it'll happen.
I'm going to see if I can time the period between the dropouts to see if it's consistent. If it is, it's likely a server-side setting causing the issue.
Any help much appreciated
UPDATE: Seems to be once ever 1:40 (every 100 minutes) that it drops. So likely to be being triggered by something.
More...
