Why do I keep losing my internet connection?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why do I keep losing my internet connection?

Posted: 9/17/2009 5:39:33 AM EDT

For the past couple days I have been losing my internet connection every fifteen minutes to half an hour. This problem is usually temporarily remedied by unplugging the power cord to the Linksys router.

I have all the spyware and cleaning programs like Ad-Aware, Glary Utilities, and C-Cleaner that I run frequently.

McAffee has been aggravating me of late, slowing my computer to a crawl with multiple daily updates––could it be causing the problems?

Posted: 9/17/2009 5:57:18 AM EDT

[#1]

I have a linksys USB wireless connection at work. Sometimes it just stops................unplug, replug and it works again.

I also had tons of problems with cox cable in the past with throttling or dropouts.

Hardwire DSL has been very good to me.

Erase Mcaffee and change to avast.

Posted: 9/17/2009 5:58:06 AM EDT

[#2]

I'd call your ISP. It sounds more like a problem on their end.

Give them the times that you experienced the dropouts and they can check their logfiles.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:00:45 AM EDT

[#3]

Unplug the router for a day or so and see if it still does it.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:01:44 AM EDT

[#4]

Try a firmware update on your router.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:02:36 AM EDT

[#5]

mine does that too, it seems like every day I have to reset the cable modem..gets pretty irritating

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:06:01 AM EDT

[#6]

I had this problem too..just last week. Problem was remedied by replacing the router.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:08:04 AM EDT

[#7]

Do you have the router then plugged into a modem?

If so it is possible that they are both trying to provide the ip addressing and then they are in conflict.

I have seen this a lot and especially with Linksys and Dlink routers.

The modem has to be set to bridged mode to eliminate this problem.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:10:48 AM EDT

[#8]

Try this

Let me ask the internet..... Oh internet...keeper of all useless and needful information of the lowly human race

Let me see...

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:41:01 AM EDT

[#9]

Mine used to do that ,my solution was to get rid of the wireless mouse and wireless key board apparently they work on the same frequency .Also some wireless phones will mess up your signal .

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:49:39 AM EDT

[#10]

Shutdown your firewall and see what happens.

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:57:20 AM EDT

[#11]

Bypass the router and hook your PC directly to the modem and see how stable the connection is...

Posted: 9/17/2009 6:58:43 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Bypass the router and hook your PC directly to the modem and see how stable the connection is...

This. If it still happens call your ISP

If it doesnt, update your routers firmware or get a new one

Posted: 9/17/2009 8:16:23 AM EDT

[#13]

something sucks

Posted: 9/17/2009 8:23:34 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Bypass the router and hook your PC directly to the modem and see how stable the connection is...

That's what I did. POS wireless router wouldn't broadcast 60 feet and make two doglegs to my desktop.

So I crawled under the house and ran coax.

Then I called the cable company to replace my two Radio Shack splitters.

Then I called them and had them replace the cable from the street.

Now I'm smokin'

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