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Okay, this has happened before. At at one point, for a nice stretch of time, it stopped happening. But now it's back with a vengeance.
Basically, at random, or under heavy loads, my wireless connection effectively shuts down. The router is fine, modem's working for everyone else who shares the connection, and my wireless adapter is the best in the house, AND is fully updated as far as drivers are concerned.
Now, being a clientside issue, I'm rather lost.
It's normally (with exceptions) a problem that is solved by the "repair" function of my wireless status icon, but at times, I have to go about it the old fashioned way and restart the DSL modem and the router and THEN use repair. Of course, by then the modem will be wanting its access code, so I have to open the good ol' 192.168.0.1 and feed it the infernal code so it will let me connect again.
I notice this doesn't happen so much anymore during typical browsing, though slowdowns are problematic and common, especially during youtube browsing. Sometimes it's just IE7 needing a restart (how a net browser climbs to six digits of processing resource in the task manager, I have no idea) other times it's the connection itself.
Mostly though, the typical pattern is on using an online game, like Team Fortress 2.
Even on servers with excellent latency, I'll find myself quickly going from reasonable ping to pings of 500 and 700 until the connection fizzles out and dies entirely. Sometimes I can repair it before I get booted from a server, but not always.
And while on a GOOD day my ping remains in the 30-70 range and the connection gives me no grief, more often this sort of nonsense barrs my way. And I really have no idea what it could be anymore. My antivirus is always on, always updated, scans weekly and takes out the adware trash.
I'm just at a loss as to what to do anymore. Frankly I'm tired of it, and if anyone here wiser than myself has the faintest inkling of a solution, I'd be delighted to hear it.
Basically, at random, or under heavy loads, my wireless connection effectively shuts down. The router is fine, modem's working for everyone else who shares the connection, and my wireless adapter is the best in the house, AND is fully updated as far as drivers are concerned.
Now, being a clientside issue, I'm rather lost.
It's normally (with exceptions) a problem that is solved by the "repair" function of my wireless status icon, but at times, I have to go about it the old fashioned way and restart the DSL modem and the router and THEN use repair. Of course, by then the modem will be wanting its access code, so I have to open the good ol' 192.168.0.1 and feed it the infernal code so it will let me connect again.
I notice this doesn't happen so much anymore during typical browsing, though slowdowns are problematic and common, especially during youtube browsing. Sometimes it's just IE7 needing a restart (how a net browser climbs to six digits of processing resource in the task manager, I have no idea) other times it's the connection itself.
Mostly though, the typical pattern is on using an online game, like Team Fortress 2.
Even on servers with excellent latency, I'll find myself quickly going from reasonable ping to pings of 500 and 700 until the connection fizzles out and dies entirely. Sometimes I can repair it before I get booted from a server, but not always.
And while on a GOOD day my ping remains in the 30-70 range and the connection gives me no grief, more often this sort of nonsense barrs my way. And I really have no idea what it could be anymore. My antivirus is always on, always updated, scans weekly and takes out the adware trash.
I'm just at a loss as to what to do anymore. Frankly I'm tired of it, and if anyone here wiser than myself has the faintest inkling of a solution, I'd be delighted to hear it.