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Question

Internet won't work untill I restart my computer or router

Jun 20, 2012 11:15PM PDT

Hello...

I have been having a problem lately with my computer, the internet keeps disconnecting until I restart either my computer or my access point router, I'm guessing its not from the router as my brother has his computer plugged to it and he is connected all the time without any problems, but my computer keep disconnecting every 30 minutes, I use a shuttle XPC SG33G5 which is a barebone aka the motherboard came with and the network card is built-in and avast anti-virus

Also if you guys could help me I have been having a problem sometimes, where the whole PC just lags and this won't be fixed without a restart I tried fixing the registry but it didn't help, is it a possible that it is an hdd problem or not ?

Thanks and Regards

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Given only that detail.
Jun 21, 2012 1:39AM PDT

I'd start with the basic WiFi setup. I'd use the router defaults, change only what the ISP needs and then...

1. Set a new simple SSID. DO NOT HIDE IT unless you accept drops and hard to connect to issues.
2. Change to WPA2 AES personal security. Use a simple alphanumeric password.

Bob

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Problem is computer, not network
Jun 22, 2012 11:27AM PDT

Hello there,

I don't think it would harm anything if you reset some wireless settings but you'd also have to make those same changes on the other computers. Because your brother is connected to the wireless the entire time that you're getting disconnected the problem shouldn't have anything to do with the internet or your wireless settings, it's got to be something with your computer.

Sometimes I've found disabling/enabling the wireless on your computer can get you back online without a restart. If you're computer is also having other issues (freezes) you might want to think about backing up and then re-installing your OS again. Once it gets to the point where my Windows machine is having multiple problems it's time for me to do a clean install of Windows.

I can't really diagnose the particular issue your computer is having without a little more info to go on but the Internet/wireless shouldn't be the issue.

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Here's one where it was the network.
Jun 23, 2012 9:59AM PDT
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If I had to guess
Jun 22, 2012 11:18PM PDT

You have an IP conflict, you set one computer for static IP, and the other for dynamic, and the static is being assigned dynamically because you did not reserve it in the router, so the dynamic computer is getting randomly assigned an IP you want on the static computer and when you start the static computer the network is not handling it well, it should dynamically reassign the IP but it does not instead windows usually detects a conflict and either alerts you or just dies network wise.