[digimapper]

I am using a laptop and hooked up to the internet by a wireless connection. Having trouble with my browsers staying connected for any length of time. Have tried many different browsers and from different internet connections, dosen't seemed to matter so I was thinking it must be a setting in vista that seems to be the problem not sure on that. I have tried task manager and shutting the process down but that dosen't work. The only thing that seems to work is restarting my computer, to get a stable internet again for a short while, getting annoying.

 

[litlfrog]

I am using a laptop and hooked up to the internet by a wireless connection. Having trouble with my browsers staying connected for any length of time. Have tried many different browsers and from different internet connections, dosen't seemed to matter so I was thinking it must be a setting in vista that seems to be the problem not sure on that. I have tried task manager and shutting the process down but that dosen't work. The only thing that seems to work is restarting my computer, to get a stable internet again for a short while, getting annoying.

This helps a lot on XP computers. It's supposed to be unnecessary in Vista, but I've seen it help.

Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt, left-click Run as administrator. (As always, click Continue if Vista requests it.) That'll open up a black command prompt window where you can type a couple of commands. Type

netsh dump

and press Enter. A whole bunch of information will scroll by quickly; we don't care what any of it says. It'll return to a blinking cursor. Type

netsh winsock reset

and press Enter. You should see a message something like 'Windows has successfully reset the winsock catalog.' Restart the computer and see if your connection remains more reliable.