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Why does my wireless break connection with my router about every 5/10 mins on one laptop, but on the other one it stays connected for ever?

In addition; it only does it on this laptop using one particular router, and the laptops audio is badly affected aswell even when playing a CD in WMP the sound is all jumpy, only on this laptop when the wireless is turned on!

Can't get my head around it.

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Sometimes the net runs really slow and has a huge ping (600+) and the net speed can come down to 600 when it should be at 4800.

All i need to do is turn off the router and turn it back on and it's 100% fine. Leave it for a few days ( or 10 mins sometimes) and it goes back to shit mode.

Why is that?

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I have had norton security set up for a few months on my laptop, trial type thing. Now telling me I have 8 days trial left. Anything better (I hope there is!) to replace it with? Free preferably.

Keeping it legal and free, you can't go wrong with AVG free anti-virus and Windows Firewall. Provided you use Firefox and not IE to browse the web and your half sensible when you visit pornsites or download dodgy files then you'll have no problems whatsoever.

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Sometimes the net runs really slow and has a huge ping (600+) and the net speed can come down to 600 when it should be at 4800.

All i need to do is turn off the router and turn it back on and it's 100% fine. Leave it for a few days ( or 10 mins sometimes) and it goes back to shit mode.

Why is that?

You should google that one, there a loads of things that can affect your ping.

Keeping it legal and free, you can't go wrong with AVG free anti-virus and Windows Firewall. Provided you use Firefox and not IE to browse the web and your half sensible when you visit pornsites or download dodgy files then you'll have no problems whatsoever.

I second AVG, been using it for like 6-7 years? I use Zonealarm's free firewall instead of the Windows Firewall. And yes Firefox over IE anyday.

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You should google that one, there a loads of things that can affect your ping.

I've had a quick look around, but i'm really don't know what i'm doing when it comes to routers. It's not the ping that's the problem, it's something the router is doing.

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I posted a question in the picture of pc thread, so if you could have a little look in there that would be nice.....

And yes, you wil lose everything on that hard drive. Assuming you format it, which you will have too unless you want two OS'?

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You'd have to take the hard disk out of your computer and put it in another or in an external enclosure and copy the data off it from there. If your unlucky though it may not allow you access.

Is it just your password you've forgot? As there are several ways of resetting that.

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Dont use avg, ad aware kicks ass seriously. AVG doesnt find half the ammount of viruses that ad aware does. It even finds more than search and destroy.

AVG = Anti Virus

As far as I know, Ad Aware is Anti Spy Ware, same as S&D... :unsure:

Though, I could be completely wrong.

Beaten to it. :P

I use AVG and Windows Firewall with no issues. :)

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Why is it that when I save a vid I've made in Movie Maker, half of the media player turns green when i play it?

On a related note, sometimes I export music videos and about 50 seconds in the sound cuts out.

I think MM is just whack mate, we should get better programs.

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When it feels like it, my PC decides to just keep restarting itself instead of actually booting up. I turn it on, it fired up, fan kicks in, then goes off as normal, just as the manufacturer screen goes it starts over again!

I unplug it, try again. Fires up, fan kicks in, won't switch off. Unplug it, try again, then it's fine!

Does it say, once a week? But I have no idea why! Took the case apart and gave it a good clean inside, all dust free etc, but it still does it.

Any ideas?

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You'd have to take the hard disk out of your computer and put it in another or in an external enclosure and copy the data off it from there. If your unlucky though it may not allow you access.

Is it just your password you've forgot? As there are several ways of resetting that.

Just done that, and it wasn't the password, my version of Windows wasn't that.. legal. So it f**ked up and every time I logged in it logged me back out. But got it all set up in different machine but of course the computer cn't find my sisters external hard drive, I think its been formatted for Macs only.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Modem logs says:

Sun Jan 18 22:03:35 2009 Sun Jan 18 22:03:35 2009 4 Warning (5) 66060510 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID ...

Fri Jan 16 19:00:17 2009 Fri Jan 16 19:00:17 2009 1 Warning (5) 68010300 DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response

Could this be the reason for the disconnects as it's happening with every router?

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Doubtful, the DHCP renew is normal - it may be a frequent occurance depending on your ISP and router, although it tends not to disconnect your internet.

The other is still unlikely, on the basis that its a warning, not an error or failure. Check your log again and post up anything with 'Error', 'Critical' or 'Failed' in the description - I'm not saying that warnings aren't important, but I highly doubt its causing any major hardware defect because then it wouldn't be a warning! (if you get me) - although do you run any software with internet requirements (i.e. limewire, iTunes, email clients) and do these logs appear when you open them?

First things first, I'd reboot the modem, then if it didn't work I'd update the firmware - if you have a browser based configuration, I'd take a configuration backup before doing anything!

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What is the make/model of your router JT? What happens when it disconnects - just a on/off/on/off pattern over X amount of time?

What have you already done to try to fix the problem (inc. restarts, factory setting defaults, moving router location, firmware upgrades)?

And any P2P software (Bit Torrent)?

You could be simply overloading your connection...

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