Intermittent connection to wireless network?

I had (or I should say have) a similar problem with a desktop PC that had a WiFi board (I was using it as a HTPC and didn't have it close enough to run a LAN cable). It would sometimes behave the same way and I would have to restart it to regain the connection. I currently have it now directly connected to the router and it still acts this way on occasion. I have found that if I wait long enough it will start up again - it never displays a message about losing the connection but it does just sits there loading the page until it finally starts to act "normal" again. I also am running Windows Vista Home Premium on a PC I built myself and at first thought it was the motherboards LAN but both the built in LAN and built in WiFi have displayed this behavior. Unfortunately, I have not been able to determine what causes the temporary slow response and it does eventually "wake up".

update your routers firmware. Go to netgears website, be sure to find the correct router in the support downloads section, read the instructions before starting.

One other thing you may consider doing is changing the encyption type to WPA if you have not already.

Pretty confident the firmware update will fix it though.

Stu

must be ab exterior source of interference, the router, or your workstation. you may desire to isolate the priority, the two through monitoring blunders or by making use of making use of distinctive equipment. case in point, in case you have yet another wifi enabled gadget save it linked with the router whilst your making use of your workstation and then see if it additionally loses it is connection whilst your workstation does. if so, you at present have the priority area remoted to the router or an exterior source of interence. If no longer, then it is in all threat the router thats the source of the priority.