My Browser Will Only Work For 5 Minutes And Locks Up

[Guest]

I have a weird problem. I have Win XP. When I am on internet, it only works
for about 5 mins. I tried installing IE again, and Firefox. Both do the same
thing as well as AOL. The other applications work. I can connect to AOL and
my VPN, but not the internet. I have done a system restore and that didnt
help. I have set temporary internet files to the max setting. Done a scan
disk, defrag, etc.
I have tried everything and nothing works. When I re-boot it will work
again, but for just a few minutes.
Any advice?
Thanks

 

[R. McCarty]

Which Network Interface Card does your PC have ? You may want
to consider updating the drivers for it. Also, there are a few settings
that can cause a timeout/disconnect, related to type of Authentification.
From your description, it sounds more like a Network setup/config
issue than one with Browsers or other software components.

 

[Frankster]

Sounds like a good chance you have a bad DNS IP address in your TCP/IP
properties.Check that any IPs you are pointing to for DNS are the right
ones, and operational.

Improper DNS IPs mixed with proper DNS IPs will cause this intermittent type
problem. Often fixed by rebooting because rebooting will re-order the DNS
entries and begin using the working one again... at first.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the info.

I did notice that the IP address changed by one didget after I had been on a
while. I have it set to automatically configure IP address. If I do manual,
how do I do the DNS? I don't know what that address is... still learning
here.

Thanks

 

[Frankster]

Well, the reason I was so non-specific was because what DNS you use depends
on your setup/network. If you have your own DNS server you would use only
that, if you are using an Internet router as your DNS you would use that. If
you are configuring your router to pass out IPs and DNS server IPs to your
clients, you would want to make sure you configure it to pass out only the
internal address of your router as DNS (specifically, not your ISP provided
DNS).

Or... if you have only one computer on the Internet behind your ISP provided
router device, then it would be okay to have your external DNS in the TCP/IP
config of the client.

Main thing is not to ever mix internal and external DNS IPs in the TCP/IP
config.

Just depends. Can you describe your network and your configuration? It's
possible this is not your problem at all. But a network description would
help.

-Frank