Hi there, I am actually a student at a college in Florida. And I am having a problem lately that I cannot figure out, To me, the network connection is mainly for the internet. The University has it set up so I wouldn't be able to browse other computers while on the network unless having a password. Well, the problem just started occusring and has happened a few times since last night. I will be surfing the net, etc, on Internet Explorer, (oh, by the way I have Windows XP)and all of a sudden my mouse and keyboard will just freeze. I think that the computer has locked up, but it really hasn't. I wait for about 10 seconds and everything is fine, EXCEPT for the fact that I no longer can access the internet, I can do anything else fine, play games, except get a connection. I waited a hour to see if the server was down, then decided to restart. After restarting the connection was fine again, and I surfed till I went to bed, nothing happened. But then today ot happened again. I am just wondering if you think that it is a network issue, a computer issue, or a network card issue. I am leaning toward my card going bad, but I am not sure. Please help. Thanks. My specs are: MSI K7T266A motherboard AMD Athlon XP 1600 SOundblaster Live. Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 64 mg 40 gig WD 7200 Hard Drive Netgear Ethernet card 16x Liton DVD 12x Sony CD RW Frank

do other pc's connected to same network have the same issue?

In all honesty, I am not sure. I am in the process of finding out. What do you think that the problem is?