losing internet connection randomly

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I'm having the same problem--for 3 months. Finally Earthlink decided it was
a defective modem, and sent me a new one today. Only time will tell if this
works.

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Bob
"scott" <scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:480D9BF3-3D4E-4BE6-A90F-2BD8B83545EB@microsoft.com...
> this seems to ve a VERY common problem
>
> can't connect to the internet after being online for random periods of
> time.
> network is just fine and looks like everything is cool but no internet!
>
> I see posts all over the place about the workaround of stopping the
> wireless
> zero config in services - but that is not a good enough solution for me!
> help
> anyone at microsoft what the hell is going on here!! how do we fix this??
>
> is there a patch for this?
>
> what do I do?
>
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