I have a cable modem running to d-link wireless router. I will sometimes lose my internet connection within windows. Everything will appear to be connected and running on both the modem and router, also task manager shows me still connected. The only way to solve the problem is to bypass the modem and re-establish the connection or restart the computer. My question is wether or not it sounds like a hardware problem or a windows problem.
Are you losing the whole network or just the internet connection?
If just the internet connection then I would have the cable company check your lines and signal strength.
If your losing the whole network, it also could be due to the modem losing connection. I have had this happen before.
Usually unplugging the modem and the router and then plugging them back in will solve the problem.
That's what I do to solve the problem, or re-establish my connection. The thing is the wirelesss network still works, and my Pc shows me connected, but I can't open anything internet related. When I hook up the cable modem directly to the host PC everythinh works great all the time never losing connection.
I wonder if that could be a misconfiguration at the router. Do you have connection set to 'on demand' or 'keep connected'? (terms may differ for different routers) Did you have to clone your MAC address onto the router to get conneccted?
You know what, I have the SAME exact problem with my Centrino lappy. I've tried EVERYTHING to fix it- nothing works. I've had this problem for over a year and still haven't found a solution.
Here's what I tried:
New cable modem
New linksys router
reinstalling centrino drivers
all kinds of crazy settings in the router
I finally gave up and chaulked it up to an incompatibility w/ my linksys router and intel's centrino chipset.
My desktop has a linksys wireless NIC and I have no problems with it at all. So it's almost certainly an incompatibility issue.
Some retard at comcast told me to try some windows patch and that it would fix it, but it didn't. So if you have comcast and they suggest that, don't bother.
