My computer upstairs is suffering more and more from mysterious temporary disconnections.

It will lose its connection to the router downstairs for around 30-60 seconds at a time for no reason at seemingly random (but increasingly frequent) intervals.

This may be a coincidence, but I recall starting to experience these problems after installing Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista.

I have tried searching on the issue but to no avail.

My brother's PC is not plagued by these problems. Any ideas?

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I have no network driver to revert back to because I have never let Windows update update drivers.

I will have a look though, just in case.

EDIT: I have just swapped mine and my brother's USB dongles. In case mine is dying. They are both identical.

EDIT2: The roll back driver box is greyed out because it has nothing to roll back to.

I had this problem. I turned my computer around 180 degrees so that the back of the PC faces me. Mine works better now. It turned out mine was just a signal problem.

It is the dongle. Replacing my dongle with my brother's one has completely fixed the issues. I guess I have overused my one.

I am going to have to buy a wireless card. Any suggestions?

By chance did you kill it by overheating

It was quite warm yes, but it has always got warm when in use lots. It has to be at least a year old now as well. As I said, I think over-use may be the reason for its demise.

Keep it swapped for your brothers but do not inform him of this. Then when his dies, it will be his problem.

I like your way of thinking. You could easily get a job in IT.

IT support = bodge it and then when it breaks again it;s not my problem.

you guys all work for bt don't you?

Shit, he's rumbled us!

My internet is rapidly decreasing in quality. You know i got my WHOLE SETUP renewed, router modem adapters. Well the problems gone back, im getting random DC's and the 60 second lag spike, its the router i think. sigh.

EDIT: sorry that was selfish xD, iff its an emergency or somet, iff u wanna decreased the time its DC's for, put the network adapter in and out, solves it in about 20seconds for me.