Constant wireless signal loss

Hey all,

Been awhile since my last visit, and I come to you in a time of need. For the past couple months my internet connection has been, at best, total . I'm on a Toshiba laptop connected wirelessly to a Linksys router (if you need more detail please let me know).

I'm convinced it's something to do with the router. When connected to other networks, say at my family's house for instance, I have absolutely no problems. As soon as I connect at home it kicks me off every 5-10 minutes. Now it's not totally disconnecting me, as my wifi card still reads as being connected; I'm just not getting any data streams after those intervals.

It's become incredibly frustrating. It's made uploading/downloading things for class a pain as I'll have to try repeatedly to make it within the window of time I have. I'm trying to watch a movie on Hulu now and it's stopping, again, every 5-10 minutes. The only way I have around this is to dis/reconnect to the router every time it stops.


Any help is much appreciated.

 

couple questions

is this on wireless only or do you have this with wired also?

what happens when you try to repair connection?

can you still ping other sites and get a response?

and do other computers on your network have this issue?

 

1. Only on wireless, but also only on this specific network. On other wireless networks it's fine.

2. "Windows did not find any problems with your Internet connection". That's after it stops loading anything, of course.

3. No, it's totally cut off from any internet connection. To get a response I have to disconnect and reconnect to the router.

4. Only one other computer has an issue on the network, the other 3 haven't had a problem yet. None of them have been on it all day either and it's still being a pain.

 

Wait, here we go. "There may be a problem with your Domain Name Server configuration."

 

Try this: open a cmd window, run "ipconfig /all" (without the quotation marks), then paste the results up in a post here.

 

I'm trying, but the window keeps disappearing immediately. Any suggestions?

 

Try Windows Key + R, then type cmd. That should open up a command prompt window. Once the window is open, type ipconfig /all.

 

It'll do that if you try to run that command directly from the little dialogue box that opens up when you hit "Run..." Instead, after you hit "Run..." enter "cmd" (without the quotation marks), hit return, and that'll open up a command console window for you that doesn't automatically disappear.

 

Here you go.

 

Any ideas? I could always try resetting the router, but that hasn't done too much in the past.

 

Sorry, I get sidetracked sometimes. Let me take a look at the ipconfig data.

 

I have this problem on a daily basis and it started when i got my new laptop with the intel 5300. i have a total of 6 wireless devices and 1 wired and when the network gets slow its my laptop causing the problem. I have had every router think of and it is always dropping signal. I even went old school and brought out the WRT54G with DD-WRT and it does the same thing. I am a certified wireless network engineer and this has me baffled. I have isolated from most of the wireless networks in my neighborhood.

 

Problem resolved. One of my roommates sat on the phone with the Linksys department and reset everything. Evidently when they reset it last time they messed up something or another, hence why I was getting kicked off.

Thanks for the help though