Why am i losing my internet connection?

[Guy Fawkes]

Its been happening for about the last 2 weeks and is dogin my fookin head in. The connection drops intermitantly for about 10 minutes at a time, today it has happened ALL aafternoon giving me 2 or 3 mins at a time on the internet. And when it does I cannot access the internet at all, msn signs out etc etc.

The thing is, I go to 'Connect To' (I am on Vista) and it says "Connected" to my wireless netwrok with good or excellent singal strength. Grrrrrrrr. It's really p1ssing me off and extremely frustrating (it's taken me 30 fookin mins to post this fookin post).

FYI: Its a vista laptop, with a belkin router/wireless and virgin media ISP. And oh, whenever I am on betfair when this happens i keep getting a pop box saying "undefined"?!

I have no idea nowadays about stuff like this so any ideas?!

[happygooner]

Originally Posted by Guy Fawkes

Its been happening for about the last 2 weeks and is dogin my fookin head in. The connection drops intermitantly for about 10 minutes at a time, today it has happened ALL aafternoon giving me 2 or 3 mins at a time on the internet. And when it does I cannot access the internet at all, msn signs out etc etc.

The thing is, I go to 'Connect To' (I am on Vista) and it says "Connected" to my wireless netwrok with good or excellent singal strength. Grrrrrrrr. It's really p1ssing me off and extremely frustrating (it's taken me 30 fookin mins to post this fookin post).

FYI: Its a vista laptop, with a belkin router/wireless and virgin media ISP. And oh, whenever I am on betfair when this happens i keep getting a pop box saying "undefined"?!

I have no idea nowadays about stuff like this so any ideas?!

Regret to say that it sounds very familiar. I'm also with virgin

[Nade]

Mine just likes to d/c every night, every 15/20mins after 7pm for a few mins at a time

Ringing the ISP is no use at all. Simply, it's the state of broadband in the UK today

[Guy Fawkes]

Originally Posted by happygooner

Regret to say that it sounds very familiar. I'm also with virgin

Originally Posted by Nade

Mine just likes to d/c every night, every 15/20mins after 7pm for a few mins at a time

Ringing the ISP is no use at all. Simply, it's the state of broadband in the UK today

Cheers lads, nice to know its not just me anyway.

Well p1ssed off at the mo with it though!!!

[AK1979]

Im with Virgin and my connection has been temperamental the last week or so. Its not to the same extent as yours though - usually a few refreshes seems to sort mine out - its still very annoying though.

[happygooner]

Originally Posted by AK1979

Im with Virgin and my connection has been temperamental the last week or so. Its not to the same extent as yours though - usually a few refreshes seems to sort mine out - its still very annoying though.

Mine has been better last couple of days but before that I was rebooting and resetting the rooter every 10-15 mins at times!

Like you say, immensely frustrating!

Found out the bastewards were throttling my service last week also in accordance with their 'fair usage, policy!

[AK1979]

Found out the bastewards were throttling my service last week also in accordance with their 'fair usage, policy!

What does that mean mate?

[happygooner]

Originally Posted by AK1979

What does that mean mate?

When they think you've downloaded too much you're service suddenly becomes about 28K (yes that's right...half the speed of dialup!)

[michaela]

I have a pc and laptop and my internet provider is sky. I have been having EXACTLY the same problems even though it says I have a good connection!!!
Good news though (hopefully) Sky have allowed my to drop out of my contract early with no charges and I go live with Nildram tomorrow, who have a very good reputation!

[Guy Fawkes]

Grrrrrrrr, if this persists i'm goign to get VERY angry.

Happened this morning from 10am til 11.30am and I was gogin out for sunday lunch which mean i couldnt look at the racing or anything. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[Valiant23]

My sister is with Virgin and has been for many years.

For most of these many years she is what I'd call a very light internet user, but like all of us as the kids get older the PC becomes used more and more.

Even now though, I would say that she isn't a heavy user by any means but her service is getting throttled like fcuk by the cowbiys at Virgin.

It appears (after doing a little searching) that they are one of the worst in using this outdated(?) practice.

I use Madasafish and they are superb (I know Nildram are the dogs 'nads but you pay for it(?)).

[PAULM03]

It might not actually be your ISP. What's the connection like when it's plugged into the wall?


I've got something odd going on with my wireless at the the minute and I can't for the life of me work out what it is. It's like the modem won't let my router have an IP address. So from my side everything's fine I appear to be connected, but my router can't communicate with the outside world.

[robert99]

Type in your location for the exchange details on:
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php

This will tell you what actually is available and whether the "good" ISP company has its own equipment installed. If it has not, then changing company makes no difference to the service speed - it is the same bottleneck for all.

[michaela]

Originally Posted by Valiant23

My sister is with Virgin and has been for many years.

For most of these many years she is what I'd call a very light internet user, but like all of us as the kids get older the PC becomes used more and more.

Even now though, I would say that she isn't a heavy user by any means but her service is getting throttled like fcuk by the cowbiys at Virgin.

It appears (after doing a little searching) that they are one of the worst in using this outdated(?) practice.

I use Madasafish and they are superb (I know Nildram are the dogs 'nads but you pay for it(?)).

Nildram are a lot cheaper than they used to be, I am been charged £17.50 a month and it is cheaper if sign up on line. I have had no problems with my connection since the 15th of May. . Oh and I got a free router as well

[aliando]

not sure if its similar to my thread: wireless help

i got my mate to change the channel as suggested and havent had any problems since (although been away for a bit, dont seem to have had any problems since we've come back)