Router Problems

[Ste Whitehouse]

Hi.
I've got a reoccouring problem with my router[s]. Brought a Netgear N back in January but it would intermittantly throw me off the internet. When I say me I mean the whole family. We have a collection of laptops [Asus, Tosiba, Evesham] and OS's [XP + vista]. but the router would just throw us all off. When off if I went through 'start-connect to' it would sometimes show
my network + others around us and sometimes there would be no networks available at all. Yet if I kept on going back to 'connect to networks' every minute or so a wide variety of networks would appear or dissappear!
I eventually got fed up with this [been an online gamer at heart] so I brought a Linksys N router last weekend. Blow me down if the same problem has occoured with this router! Sometimes it states that the network I'm trying to access is unknown, even though it has my network name in brackets alongside it; or that I have limited access to the network which translates as "you can't get log on at all"!
The friend who set up the routers for me [my wife felt that I was boardering on psychosis and so didn't want to unlease a serial killer on the world after my first two attempts with the Netgear router] feels that my ISP may be to blame but looking at the forums I can find nothing that seems to suggest this. [I'm with Orange by the way] Am I alone or is this a problem others have had? If so what can I do to solve it?
Thanks

[johnwill]

Well, if two different brands of routers have failed the same way, I'd be looking elsewhere. Your issue sure sounds like an ISP disconnection...