I have Windows XP Home w/ SP2.. for the past year, I get booted
from all internet activity at exactly quarter til every hour!! I
cannot for the life of me figure out why, and it is quite
bothersome as I sometimes get booted from doing something
important.
Does anyone have any ideas at all as to how I can fix this
problem?
You don't mention on how you're connected to the internet but
assuming that you are getting a DHCP-assigned IP address, it's
possible that it is assigned with a one-hour lease which for some
reason fails to renew and then expires.
Try opening a command window and enter the command:
ipconfig /all
and examine the "Lease Obtained" and "Lease Expires" values to see if
they sync up with your drops.
The above may not be meaningful if you have a router in the path. If
you have a router, then you must connect to your router's status page
and examine its lease expiration date/time. (Your router gets a DHCP
lease from your ISP then your computer gets a DHCP lease from your
router -- a failure to renew either one will cause you to lose
connection)
DHCP assigned IP leases should automatically renew themselvels when
half of the initial lease time has expired.
One reason for failure to renew a DHCP lease is a misconfigured
firewall on your computer or router.
HTH,
John
