Hello all I have just got broadband, & have a niggle that is going to get very annoying, the connection to the net keeps dropping i keep getting a connection box that pops onto the screen i have to keep clicking on it to reconnct to the net, im using a wireless connection to a router / modem that is in the same room, signal strength is execellent, i have put the modem / router to always on in its settings. Please help thanks.

You have to determine if its your connection to the router or the routers connection to the internet that is the problem. Start by going into the nics properties and disable any power saving features. Next time the "internet drops" see if you can IE into your router. If you can you know the issue isn't with your pc. Next see if you can run the diagnotics or "test" of the wan for connection. Post back your results Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Frequently (but not always) one gets droppped off the system because one has not properly configured the wifi (including router wifi settings) devices correctly... With this in mind... check out some of the suggestions in the post immediately above this one... i.e. http://my.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/151235.html

HELLO Thanks for the help, please can you tell me what the nics properties are, i have managed to find the diagnostic for the router & below is the test results,another problem im having is i can't connect to my email account i have set the account to use my lan, the strange thing is i have managed to connect to the account once, it downloaded my messages ok then next time refuses even though i haven't changed anything. Testing Ethernet LAN connection . PASS Testing ADSL Synchronization ... PASS Testing ATM OAM segment ping ... PASS testing ATM OAM end to end ping ... PASS Ping Primary Domain Name Server ... PASS Ping www.yahoo.com ... FAIL Thanks

Hello I think it has been sorted, i hadn't set up my router properly & i had a prob with windows, luckily my brother has set up his own wireless network so was able to sort mine out, he has updated my windows & that also helped sort the prob. Thanks

Every time my SBC DSL connection crashes, I have to do a system recovery with discs, and this last time, my computer Presario refused to reset to the correct ISP Address, even when I do the "ipconfig/reset", "ipconfig/renew" thing. I need to be able to do some DOS command like, "reset IP Address= (correct DSL address), because currently it is only doing a dial-up, which is slow, not what I am paying for, and has to be re-established every time I try to log in rather than continuing in between uses to strengthen the connection.