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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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

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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.

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