• Vista constantly Dropping Connection
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This is probably a familiar problem to you seeing as Google pulls up so many results about it, one moment the network is fine and then for no apparent reason my internet connectivity is dropped, I can't load any pages. I can still ping websites and some other internet services do still work but I can't load any web pages. There are no events in the log of any significance that can tell me what is going on. Only a system restart will remedy the problem, when restarting the computer hangs for quite a while before doing anything too, that only happens when the internet connectivity is dropped, the rest of the time it restarts almost instantly. I have read and tried every fix in the book. Setting my NIC so the computer cannot turn it off to save power. Disabled IPV6 and relative services, disabled QoS scheduler, fiddled with the registry, reset winsock and tcp/ip settings, installed every update going and the problem STILL REMAINS! I can't find any other fixes on the subject. God knows why Microsoft haven't been able to fix this yet!!!! It's driving me up the wall so if anyone could offer some help I'd appreciate it big time. The most annoying thing is that I solved this problem ages ago when I installed Vista on my old machine but I forgot what I did!!!
When was the last time you reset your DSL modem?
I've done that many times. The problem lies within Vista itself, it has nothing to do with any network hardware. I was just hoping someone's had this problem and solved it using a way I haven't thought of yet.
Are you using wireless because sometimes certain security like wep2 or whatever can do this If not then. Have you checked to see if your ip settings are automatic or set in "stone" so to speak. Reseting wont do anything if its set. Go to cmd (type cmd in start search thingy) then type ipconfig/all check your ip write it down. Then use the other method you used to refresh your ip and see if it changes (you have to retype ipconfig/all). If it don't then report back for more instruction.
I had this once. Though it was on XP. I could use Steam and everything, but I could only access Google websites. Then, suddenly, it worked.
Nope, wired connection using a router. Any suggestions anyone?
[QUOTE=sam.clarke;17358330]Nope, wired connection using a router. Any suggestions anyone?[/QUOTE] try setting a static internal IP my connection on my laptop got better when i did that
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