Stop it already
Nothing but trouble since I got my computer back. Everything’s brand new, of course, it’s been reformatted, however, I keep losing my connection to the internet.
I may be online for half an hour and all of a sudden, I’ve got no connection. Sometimes it’s an hour, sometimes it’s right away.
I took it over to Yow again yesterday and everything was connecting just fine there, but then we didn’t have it connected for half an hour or an hour to see if it timed out then.
Today I tried moving around the cables to the router to see if that did anything. Nope. I went over to Best Buy where I bought the router, and I bought a couple of new cables for the router – one to the modem and one to my computer.
That didn’t work either. I’ve been on the phone 3 times now to Linksys to try various troubleshooting methods. Now I’ll see how long I’m connected – whether that actually did anything.
If this continues, I guess I’m going to have to take the computer back and say “reformat again” to see if that solves anything. Or maybe I need a new ethernet card… $50 for new cables today just wasn’t enough to spend after the past 2 weeks of spending money on my computer.
I guess I’ll see tonight whether I conk out again after this latest round of attempted fixes.
And what’s with my brand new keyboard anyway? I can’t use ctrl-c or ctrl-v or ctrl-a. It’s probably only a couple of months old. Do I have to take that back too?
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Do you happen to have Service Pack 3 installed? Although I don’t think the symptom is having a connection on and off but I read SP3 may mess with some drivers necessary for internet connection. (I’m just thinking, because your laptop seems to connect fine?)