Hello, I have some trouble with a home wireless network, when i play online games on my PC my connection cuts out every 3-4 minutes for a few seconds, my shoots up and my screen freezes for around 5 seconds, I have a netgear router and USB adaptor, I bought that hoping to solve my toubles but it didnt, before that I had a belkin router and wireless network card and the same trouble, I have re-installed XP twice. I have a laptop on the network which runs fine in games. My desktop runs okay over ethernet but not wirelessly, I have changed the MTU to 1400 as instructed by AOL. I have also tried disabling my cordless phone and I still have the problem. I have posted in other forums on the internet and not had many responses, can anyone help here? I would be really grateful for any advice anyone has to offer. Thanks Mike

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You may have a bad wireless adaptor. To test this, go to Start>Run, and type cmd and click OK. Next, enter in the black window without quotes, "ping 127.0.0.1 -t" and press enter. This sends packets to your wireless adaptor. If everything is working, you should get repeated and consecutive replies that look like this: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Let this run while playing games, and browsing. If your connection drops out, go back to the command prompt, and see if you're still getting the same readings as above. If you get anything different, you may have a bad adaptor. But try that, and post back what happens.

Hi RWD, thanks for your reply, I pinged the adaptor as you said and loaded up a game, I played the game with the same interuptions for about 10 minutes and then checked back on the CMD prompt, all the results were the same right through. "Reply from 127.0.01: bytes=32 time <1ms TTL=128" is this okay? and if so what else could I try, thx again, mike

Hey Mike, sorry for not responding sooner --- a busy day today w/ church and all. That is ok for you to get the pings like that, it just makes the problem very difficult to tackle. So you've had the same problem with a different wireless card, and router? I believe in the Big Bang. God said it, and BANG it happened!

A few things to try: Disable the Ethernet connection. Do this by going to Network Connections, right-clicking LAN Connection, and click Disable. Sometimes when Windows manages more than 1 LAN, it can cause problems---but not in every case. Are you running any service packs? If not, it may be good to update to Service Pack 2. You can download the setup to your laptop, then move it to the desktop while your connection is running. Finally, check the manufacturer's site of your USB adaptor, for any updated drivers. I hope I've been a help. I believe in the Big Bang. God said it, and BANG it happened!

I gave up on my wireless netgear router because of similar problem. Now i am using both routers connected together, the wired router(stable and fast) and wireless router (crappy and slow). I connect my gamming machine to the wired one and surfing machines to the wireless. So far so good.