Network and OS faulty?

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I have recently networked my computer in my new house. Back in my old place
everyone was connected to a 4 way braudband modem, a four way hub hooked up
to a single port modem just 6 months pria. Both times I've never had a
problem.

On this new connection I'm required to run my computer through a 4 way hub
then through my gf's computer before reaching the modem as blueyonders
connection overides the modem's program and only gives one ip.

Now the connection runs fine, but every two hours my computer loses its
connection and parts of the os goes a bit screwy like the control panel
locking up on load or a few windows like network connections refusing to
load. first time this happened i couldn't get MSN messenger to shut down, not
even using ctrl+alt+delete.

Upon reboot, everything back to normal for another two hours or so.

I've also noticed that since this started, my net work tools such as the
home network setup refuse to load, cougthing up errors everywhere when trying
to load them.

Whats going on!? How do I fix this?
 
Perhaps using a Keep Alive program might fix the problem.

"Keep alive" or "stay alive" software simulates human activity on a
connection to fool the ISP's monitoring software into thinking that the
connection is active. There are paid-for and free programs available.

Keep It Up - $15 - http://www.geocities.com/pbsftwr/Keepitup.html

Free alternatives can be found by entering a search phrase such as keepalive
+ free + utility in the Google search box at the top of this page, or by
clicking this link:

http://www.google.com/search?q=stay+keep+alive+connection.

The only other way to keep the connection alive is to schedule a ping
command to run at regular intervals. It doesn't matter which website you
ping. You can use Notepad to enter the ping command, which can take this
form: ping www.computershopper.co.uk. Save the command as a .bat file, such
as ping.bat. Then all you have to do is use the Windows Task Scheduler to run
the command periodically just before you go online. Don't schedule it to run
while offline or it will attempt to access the web every few minutes,
depending on the period you set for it to run.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
 
I would consider replacing the hub with a broadband router. Most broadband
routers come with a 4 port switch (like a hub) and one WAN port. The
broadband modem connecrs to this WAN port and only be assigned ONE IP
address. The router would be using NAT setting (somewhat like a simple
firewall!)
 
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