Always losing internet connection, help?

[Theresonly1]

Hello,

Im always losing the internet connection but my connection on my router seems to be perfect.
The situation is that i have 2 PC connected(WIRED) to the router where 1 is Xp, other: Vista!

Xp one is working perfectly fine always and is connected to the main port of the router...
However the Vista PC always loses connection every 1 -2 days. I reset the router each time where it solves the problem temporary and after 2 days or so its stops again :(

On the status icon it says: "network access: local only" when it doesnt have internet connection, normally with the internet connection it displays: network access: local access and internet"

Router signal is perfect where XP PC can access internet but in VISTA when i pull up a web page it displays: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. (Nothing to do with web browser as i tried all types of web browsers - they all produce same stuff)

Note* Vista PC connected to 2nd port of router.

Help? Any ideas why this is?

I have some insight in me:

• Is it because of the ISP im using? Using Orange at the moment, some people say thats crap but i dont know...
  
• Is is because Vista PC is taken up 2nd port and not the 1st port therefore not getting enough signal??
  
• Or is it because its VISTA? Some people say Vista is not that good overall?

Thanks in advance for any help...
Any help to solve it or why that is or what caused it would be grateful!

Cheers, Theresonly1

[Tempset]

Originally Posted by Theresonly1

I have some insight in me:

• Is it because of the ISP im using? Using Orange at the moment, some people say thats crap but i dont know...
  
• Is is because Vista PC is taken up 2nd port and not the 1st port therefore not getting enough signal??
  
  The ports on a router are equal to each other. There would be no preference based on which port it's plugged into.
  
  Now if you have a computer plugged INTO the WAN feed instead of the actual ports meant for computers, then I can see how you'd have a problem.
  
  
  
• Or is it because its VISTA? Some people say Vista is not that good overall?
  
  Vista itself would not cause your connection to drop out. While I am NOT a fan of Vista, others who blame an OS on things I can't be responsible for are just not thinking clearly.

[Theresonly1]

Thanks for your reply.

Well, i'm sure that my PCs are connected to the right ports and not the WAN port.

My working pc (XP) is connected to port 1 where as, my VISTA one which had all the problems is connected to port 2 respectively. The other 2 ports are unused.

So therefore i dont think its that problem, and now i still do not know where the problem is.


Could it be some setting to do with the PC itself?

Any more suggestions on where it has all gone wrong would be great, Thanks!

[johnwill]

Some things you can try here.

1. Update the firmware to the latest version available on the manufacturer's site.
2. Reset the router to factory defaults and reconfigure.

Many times these measures will resolve a lot of intermittent issues.

[Theresonly1]

Thanks again for your reply.

I think that reseting factory settings doesnt really work for me. Ive tried that so many times but still happening.

In terms of fireware im not sure about that so maybe i'll give that a wee try. If it goes well it proves that the problem is to that with the router itslef.

But even more worst it could have been something to do with the phone line as my phone line is quite really old indeed.

[johnwill]

Register at DSLReports and run their Line Quality Tests. It's best to run this test with a direct wired connection to eliminate any wireless issues from the results. It's useful many times to run this test several times, and we'd like to see each of the results. Post the results link from the top of the test display page for each test run here.

The link to post is near the top of the page and looks like:

If you wish to post this result to a forum, please copy/paste this URL
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2357195 <- sample only, yours will obviously be different!
and your IP will be disguised.

Copy/paste that link here.

Note: You will have to enable PING (ICMP) request response either in your router (if you have one), or in your computer's firewall for direct modem connections. This is very important to get the most important part of the test to run.