ok- Got a Linksys wireless router. I am having problems with both my laptop AND desktop connections. Not sure what kind of wireless card my laptop has, but, my desktop has a D-Link DWL-520 card in it. My other desktop is wired using Cat5. Internet is always up, so that's not the problem.
On both the desktop and laptop computers, I am losing internet connection whenver my computer sleeps or sits idle for a while. I go into the D-Link connection utility (on my desktop), and tell it to reconnect, which, it does after about 10 seconds. I never change anything, it just decides to disconnect if I don't use the computer for a while. Now, on my desktop, I can't get it to reconnect all of a sudden. I go into the utility, find my SSID, hit the connect button, it finds the network, signal strength is Very Good, and then says connected. But then, nothing works. IE doesn't conenct. IMs don't connect- nothing. So, even tho it's saying it's connected, it won't even connect now. This is just all of a sudden. So Im not sure if it has to do with the same problem as I mentioned earlier- when it disconnects on its own after a while, or, if this is something different.
If someone could help me out, I'd surely appreciate it! This is a home office network, and my business is suffering BIG TIME with no internet. Any ideas out there? Thanks D