Wireless Drops Internet - Network Still Works

19 Oct 2008 11:36 PM

SantaUK

Hi guys

In the past couple of weeks, my laptop has developed a strange problem.
When I boot up, I can connect to the internet via either wireless or
Ethernet. Only thing is that after a few minutes of being connected, I
loose the internet connection. To make it more complicated, when this
happens I can still use Remote Desktop Connection in windows, and connect to
my main PC, and then use that to connect to the net. So there is nothing
wrong with my internet connection, and my internal network works fine. Just
the damn wireless on my laptop. Any ideas? Using Windows XP SP3

20 Oct 2008 12:05 AM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Try to set priorities to the connections.
http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

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"SantaUK" <sa***@northpole.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
>
> In the past couple of weeks, my laptop has developed a strange problem.
> When I boot up, I can connect to the internet via either wireless or
> Ethernet. Only thing is that after a few minutes of being connected, I
> loose the internet connection. To make it more complicated, when this
> happens I can still use Remote Desktop Connection in windows, and connect
> to
> my main PC, and then use that to connect to the net. So there is nothing
> wrong with my internet connection, and my internal network works fine.
> Just
> the damn wireless on my laptop. Any ideas? Using Windows XP SP3
>