My friend reccomended this site, I hope you can help. This has happened sometimes before, but has become recently more problimatic as it happens much more often. Whenever I use my internet's bandwidth to the max, it just stops working. It says on the MSN troubleshooter thing that somthing is wrong with my IP or gateway, but I know from experiance Microsoft usually has trouble finding out what is ACTUALLY wrong with things. When I max out my bandwidth, I can usually get 15 mins of internet time then it stops. This issue is resolved when I restart my computer. I use a NetGear Router. 2 Nvidia SLI'd 7800's BEAT THAT lol.

If you are maxing out the bandwidth as you say you are...then I would suspect that your ISP is the one killing you not your computer. The only thing I can think of is that the internet card is bad and shutting down on you or possibly overheating. Have you tried a different add-on 10/100/1000 ethernet card and see if that solves the issue? I can't believe that you have a winsock problem because you seem to be able to go on-line without issues. Gateways interconnect networks with different, incompatible communication protocols such as TCP/IP. It could really care less as to how much bandwidth is being used unless there is too little for it to work. I am not that up on your router but it may have some kind of built in limiter that will not allow the full use of the bandwidth because it must share with other network users and shut down. Have you tried to direct link straight to the modem and see if it still shuts you down. If it does...I would be calling my ISP about it. In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock

Thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate that. The funny thing is that as I was writing my reply back, my internet crashed, and I was only downloading one thing ( Using up 24kbps according to Limewire ) Which shouldnt be crashing my internet at all! I cannot directly connect my comp. to the internet without a router because my internet cord only connects to the router directly from outside, and it has just enough slack to connect to the router. A thing I forgot to mention is that I re-formated one of my hard drives, therefore re-installing windows. Everything worked perfect before the re-install ( As far as I know.) My internet card shouldnt have to be replaced as it is brand new. My video card (Nvidia 7800 GTX OC) Reports a perfect temp. in my case, as does everything else (If that matters.) After I re-installed windows, I could not connect to the internet unless I installed a (ethernet controller?) from my motherboard disk. After that i had to set up a connection, but it didn't work quite right... It says I have a 400 Mbps connection speed. When I click the connection icon on my taskbar, It can't find my IP, gateway, adress type, or subnet mask. When I click the repair button, It just gives me some error that says IP adress is not enabled for this connection. Hope you know how to fix, and thx for the fast reply. 2 Nvidia SLI'd 7800's BEAT THAT lol.

yeah, because you probably dont have the right driver for the NIC. Also is there two connections in your network connections folde? It should say the first one to be enabled not that second one and that should allow you to access the internet.

Thx it works now! Oh boy what a good idea! :