NIC card issues - heavy troubleshooting still not fix

arnolds9

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Dec 10, 2013
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Hello,

I have a really irritating re-occurring problem with my NIC card.

The issue: Occasionally my NIC drops about 50% of all packets, making my internet experience totally unusable. The only way I can return it to normal is a weird combo of power cycling, hard restarting and factory resetting. This problem occurs maybe 35% of the time at boot up.

My troubleshooting: Replaced the router(It's a 90$ investment and I don't really want to switch brands as it's a 6th month old router), swapped cables, cleared every cache I have, screamed at my ISP (They are seeing everything as 100% when I encounter this event), updated every driver connected to my NIC. I even tried rolling back a few versions. Same story.

Thoughts? Throw my router in a river and buy a different brand?