windows 7 internet

D.Roberts · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:19

hi all me bro keeps saying his windows 7 keeps loosing internet well keeps popping up with limited or no internet connection he can fix it for a little while by restarting any ideas please.

cheers all

asim18 · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:35

Wired or Wireless?

Have you tried cold restarting the router? (from the mains)

Simps · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:40

This happened to me when I first installed win 7 and then again when I updated Ethernet drivers.
My first fix was to reboot the router but it carried on disconnecting. A couple of reboots later and it was fixed. :confused:

I didn't do anything other than reboot a few times. Wierd.

D.Roberts · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:41

wireless

he says its not unheard of but there is no fix.

well i dont know i realy dont i will have to go round and have a go i suppose hehe.

its done it on two different routers one belkin other netgear only thing that is the same is the dongle its a g mimo plus belkin.

D.Roberts · 27 Sep 2009 at 20:53

ok just to report he has it working great now all he had to do was uninstall firefox.

he read somewhere that it dont like win7.

Burnsy2023 · 27 Sep 2009 at 21:02

D.Roberts said:
ok just to report he has it working great now all he had to do was uninstall firefox.

he read somewhere that it dont like win7.

That's a load of crap, the latest version of FF has had no problems on my or any of my friends machines. It's unlikely to cause that sort of problem anyway.

Coldzero · 28 Sep 2009 at 11:06

Sounds like hardware issue imo.

jas72 · 29 Sep 2009 at 14:09

Firefox stopped working for me I now have it uninstalled.

When it updated to 3.5 it just hung on google. Everyone said it was my addons which is strange as my 2 XP machines at home and my XP machine at work all have the EXACT same addons and firefox runs perfectly on them.

I tried deleting my profile and cache and it fixed the problem for all of 2 minutes until next time I did a google search.

TBH I have limited time at home on the PC and it's just easier to use IE8 than to spend days trying to figure the problem out.

Fireblade2K4 · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:40

Personally I'd try and figure out the problem, FF is so much better than IE8!

Stu