New laptop internet stops working after hour or so, arg!

[DrR]

I have a wag54gs router, worked fine with my old laptop.

Randomly on my new laptop the internet will just stop working, I can still ping my router, but can't access the router control pannel or go on the internet or anything without a reboot.

Any ideas?

 

[ViolentJ]

I assume when you say reboot you mean reboot the laptop and not the router? perhaps check for updated ethernet drivers?

 

[DrR]

Yeah have to reboot the comp. Computer says all the drivers are up to date.

 

[Gavin.]

i used to have this problem on my acer aspire 5630, took me a few weeks to realise that i was always lay on my bed when it dropped the connection. My bed sheets were blocking off the fan and vents so i assume the wireless card was getting to hot.

Never done it since.


try removing it from device manager and re-install it?

 

[KDF]

Vista by any chance ?

Had a few reports of this happening with some of the people in my work, random disconnections etc. but I don't support Vista (mainly cause its s**t but thats a different topic) so I never found out what was causing it.

 

[DrR]

Right, this has happened again, MSN messenger still works fine, so i'm still connected to the interent, just can't use FireFox or IE?

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Installed a firewall recently or an update like that?

 

[DrR]

Laptop is 2 days old, it's done it since i had it, but as soon as i switched it on i uninstalled the Norton shite, then installed Zone alarm and AVG

 

[172.com]

Running any torrents?

 

[DrR]

Nope, nothing else is installed.

 

[Cookie]

IE, FF, or other?

 

[172.com]

Hmm, try making sure you have the latest drivers for the network then.

I take it you've already powered down the router and restarted it?

 

[DrR]

Upgraded the router firmware.

 

[172.com]

Had a few reports of this happening with some of the people in my work, random disconnections etc.

I had it, never truly disconnected, but I couldn't get anything in the browser, even the router setup, but could ping.

Turns out it was my bittorrent client being greedy. Limited the connections it's allowed and it's sorted now.

 

[DrR]

yeah msn messenger still works, and i could ping my router, well i've fiddled with settings on my router, i'll see how it goes tomorrow.

 

[Al_G]

The Mrs's new DELL laptop does this. I was wondering whether it could be a virus which AVG isnt picking up on :S

Cant be my router as all other PC's in the house work fine...

 

[DrR]

I hope it's not a virus, i've not downloaded anything other than AVG and zone alarm.

Seams to be random, sometimes does it after 10 mins, othertimes after a few hours.

 

[Al_G]

I hope it's not a virus, i've not downloaded anything other than AVG and zone alarm.

Seams to be random, sometimes does it after 10 mins, othertimes after a few hours.

Yep same for mine too. Whats the make of Laptop?

 

[DrR]

HP

 

[DrR]

Right now moved over from WEP to WPA as apparently WEP is really old technology.

 

[172.com]

Old, and can be cracked by a 10-year-old script kiddie in a few minutes lol.

May as well not have any security on it if you're using WEP.

 

[shadowsun]

There's some patch somewhere which opens many more ports up on your pc to help this... just can't remember where...