my wireless internet connections keeps disconnecting..

[skim milk]

i have a wireless network in my apartment and it never used to have disconnections but now I get them pretty frequently
is it possible that someone is trying to access or hack into something?

The wireless router has a firewall and i also run zonealarm firewall on my laptop

i couldn't get network security up since it won't work for some odd reason so my wireless connection is available to anyone that lives near me.... I'm not the only one as I can connect to at least 5 networks near me without a password

any ideas on how to better protect my network

 

[Kibbo]

enable WEP, or better yet, WPA.

What brand router and card do you have?

 

[yadda]

I used to get frequent disconnects under Win XP SP1 and now that I using XP SP2 it is working flawlessly. What OS and SP???

Y

 

[Modder N Art]

Do you have any 2.4Ghz cordless phones? Those will knock you offline pretty reliably.

Lisa

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: yadda
I used to get frequent disconnects under Win XP SP1 and now that I using XP SP2 it is working flawlessly. What OS and SP???

Y

thanks, i was still using SP1
I'm updating to SP2 now..