Internet Cutting out

[Jelly]

My internet has been cutting out, all I need to do to fix it is go into my network connections and hit the repair button and it is fixed, but this is no solution while playing an online game. I now use a wireless router, but this has occured while I was hard-lined in as well. Is this a problem caused by the ISP or is there something in my computer?

Gigabyte technology K8 Triton
AMD athlon 64 3000+
1024 MB RAM
Geforce 6800 GT

NETGEAR Wireless PCI card
NETGEAR Wireless router

 

[deftech]

If you are running win2k or winxp goto run, type eventvwr, and check the system or application logs for serious errors marked with a red dot. This may give a clue as to what's going on.

If you are hard wired in, and still get same problem, you can eliminate the wireless nic as a variable right there.

Try using the PING utility to send packets to and from your router from your pc to see if there are any dropped packets.

It could also be your ISP or your cable modem, or dsl router whichever you use.

Lastly it could also be a windows problem, but you won't know until you at least check the Event Viewer and get an error message to go off of. If you are hitting 'repair' in windows, then it could very likely be the o/s causing the problem, such as incompatible drivers, a firewall issue, or a program conflicting with your network activity in the background.

Hope this gets you started on your troubleshooting journey ))

 

[Jelly]

The only errors that occured happened yesterday, they were an error that occured with DHCP denying a ip address lease, and NetBD device driver could not be created. The same thing has been happening when I have it hard-lined in, so I doubt its my router. What kind of drivers for what equipment might be incompatible? And I have sygate personal firewall which origionally blocked my my network, but I configured it so I am able to surf now. I have been suspecting a virus, but heres the thing: I reformated my hard drive yesterday. Installed my Wireless network driver, and immediately went on and started to download Sygate personal firewall, in which my network then lost it's connection, so this is saying a virus got in within 3 minutes of my computer finishing it's install of Windows xp.
I also hooked in my laptop with a PCMCIA card and was surfing the web at the same time as my desktop, at first the laptop could surf while the desktop lost its connection, but then the laptop would start losing it's connection too. And the laptop uses windows 98, rather than windows XP home like my desktop.
Any Ideas?
I also pinged my system, and lost no packets

 

[deftech]

Try using a static ip address to bypass dhcp.

Also when you lose your connection go into the command prompt, and type ipconfig /all and see what your ip address is.

 

[Xitar]

You don't mention who your ISP is. If it is comcast go here and read the quick fix until comcast gets there act together. I you don't know how to change the values or where to change them let us know.

 

[Jelly]

My ISP is Falcon Broadband, they use wireless radio internet. I have directly connected my Computer into my Router, and it seems to be surfing fine. I am thinking maybe my wireless card is crap. The reason I dont like this though is that I have a feeling that there might be something wrong with my internet, My motherboard and PSU have fried 3 times in the past 4 months. I now have a 500 Watt battery back-up that I hope helps with electricity, but as for the internet... You see, this wireless radio dish stuff is different, there is actually electricity running down the line. I had the wireless so that this line would never actually touch my computer. Will a router help stop a power surge or anomaly from reaching my computer?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Jelly
My ISP is Falcon Broadband, they use wireless radio internet. I have directly connected my Computer into my Router, and it seems to be surfing fine. I am thinking maybe my wireless card is crap. The reason I dont like this though is that I have a feeling that there might be something wrong with my internet, My motherboard and PSU have fried 3 times in the past 4 months. I now have a 500 Watt battery back-up that I hope helps with electricity, but as for the internet... You see, this wireless radio dish stuff is different, there is actually electricity running down the line. I had the wireless so that this line would never actually touch my computer. Will a router help stop a power surge or anomaly from reaching my computer?

If the router is WIRED to the computer, no, if your that afraid of it, use the wireless card.

 

[Jelly]

damnit sheik, you suck. Now I got to go and get a new wireless card AND wireless router. Thanks a lot. And yes, 3 fried motherboards and three fried psu's makes me very nervous of anything touching my computer

 

[bocamojo]

Check out the Netgear WGT624 wireless router. It has built in SPI firewall along with NAT firewall. The SPI firewall is good for protecting against denial of service attacks from the internet, which could be a part of the problem you are dealing with right now.

 

[Jelly]

My current router also has an SPI firewall which is turned on. How do the denial of service attacks work? And is there a reason that my wireless pci card wouldn't work while the Hard-lined one would with a denial of service attack?