Losing Broadband internet connection

[Guest]

For the past few months I have a problem with internet access via cable modem
through a network router (using hardware firewall) by my browser, Outlook,
and all other programs that access the internet. I have to reboot to access
the internet. Sometimes I have to reboot a second time before the connection
will work. Then after a period of time (hours) the access is lost and I have
to reboot again once or twice. I recently ran Ad-Aware and installed SP2
but that did not solve the problem. I ran XP Pro with this hardware for a
year before the problem started.
Any ideas?

 

[Kevin]

Virus? Worm? Trojan? What does your ISP have to say?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Well, I have a 'kludge' or workaround. You would probably need a betted NIC
card driver to solve it completely. Instead of a reboot, I find flushing DNS
and rebuilding will get it back for me:

DNS fails: Go to start/run, and type CMD, then at that prompt type: IPCONFIG
/flushDNS and then : IPCONFIG /registerDNS

If you are seeing the same error that I am, if you just type IPCONFIG during
the error, you will see you have no 'default gateway' (router address) I
think this is not the router's fault, it's the NIC driver.

 

[Guest]

I had already tried ipconfig /flushDNS etc. and it doesn't solve the problem

 

[Guest]

Try this
http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Your tcp/ip is corupt from removing the worm/virus and needs to be fixed, I
myself had this problem and i used this program reebooted then unpluged the
cable modem and let it reset and it fixed the problems

 

[Guest]

Look at the 2/1/2005 thread titled "Losing Network Connection". That
solution worked for me.