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Wired connection randomly drops

I have cox cable going through a modem, then to my belkin wireless. The wireless works fine, however my wired connection randomly drops off. It might works for a few days, then drop 1 to 15 times the following day. I keep having to unplug everything to reset it.

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Since the wireless works fine on your router, then it is possible that there is a problem either on your ethernet cable or on the port of the belkin router.
Try a different ethernet cable. (Ethernet cable is the one that is connected from your computer to the router.) If you don't have a spare cable, you can directly connect the computer to the modem, just to isolate the issue and determine if it is the cable or the computer itself.
If you have determined that the cable is working fine, then try a different port on the router.
I hope this helps!

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