Bam Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Ok, so like once a week or so my connection takes a shit. It's only done this at the new place we moved into, a little over a month ago. At first I thought it was the router, so i exchanged it for a new one. But nope, still does it. And then it takes me like 20minutes to get back online afterwards. WHY does it do this? I'm not sure what causes it, and I try hitting the "repair" button but the only thing that I THINK has fixed it is unplugging/plugging it in again after a few minutes. This is BULLSHIT, it works fine 99% of the time, but then it sucks ass, almost enough for me to manually connect my laptop and lose the 'portability' of the laptop just so i don't have to go thru this. What can i do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 dont know how to help ya but your sig just made my head explode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted December 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 dont know how to help ya but your sig just made my head explode haha thanks, i get that a lot. :grin2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street pilot Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Laptop with internal wireless right? Dell? Update the drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dirty bastard Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 My connect does this also I just pull the plug on the router and it works again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Windows XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrblunt Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 My connect does this also I just pull the plug on the router and it works again This works well for me. Every other day or so I powercycle the router and modem. Through various torrent sites i've found that Linksys routers have a max connection limit that is easily hit when your downloading torrents or anything else p2p. All you need to do is reboot it occasionally and i'm sure you'll be just fine. I hear there are firmware updates to fix this but i'm too lazy to do it as of yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRN96WS6 Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 I have a linksys router and it hardly ever craps out on me. I rarely have to reset it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 BAM call me . I 've got a good amount of experinace with wifi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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