I'm connected on a university network and recently i've started to have a few problems with it. While the network connects when my computer starts up it then ceases to work after about 10-15 mins (restarting the computer restarts the connection). Any ideas why? I think it could have something to do with proxy settings, as i tried to install proxycap the other day while trying to get kazaa to work on the network (any help with this would also be appreciated!) but it didn't seem to work. I've since removed this program. I've run adaware and spybot search and destroy already, but this hasn't helped. I would grateful for any ideas you may have... thanks!

Could be your school is terminating your connection because of your use of Kazza. Hook up to the net without Kazza running and see what happens.

Thanks, but I only tried to connect with kazaa running a couple of times, and so this problem has now occured a number of times without it running.

Some networks (particularly academic ones), have become a little paranoid about Kazaa, viruses, etc. so they may have network-wide firewalls on the outgoing and incoming internet connections. Maybe your software firewall is conflicting with this. Have you tried disabling it. It's also possible the your use of Kazaa (even briefly), put you on a "blacklist" that will automatically cause your external connection to terminate after a brief period of time. I've seen this done here in the northeast in several places. Don

i don't think that that is the problem either, as i know a lot of people who use kazaa regularly on the connection and haven't been banned. also the 'automatically detect settings' checkbox keeps checking itself in the lan settings of internet options. which still leads me to thinking that the problem has something to do with the proxy settings. any other ideas?