I have a high-speed line with my phone company and over the last few weeks have been losing connectivity every so often. It is not for a long time, since it is not that apparent in my web surfing, but I also play online games, and the games detect a link loss and cause the game to close. I can then usually log right back in and be back in for the rest of the night, or it will kick me out in 20-30min again...There does not seem to be a pattern
When I contacted my carrier, they blamed the problem on a Linksys router I was using to network my two PCs so they could both access the Internet.
I have since removed that and the problem is still happening. The problem seems to have started after downloading the latest Windows XP Pro SP2 update, but I can't seem to find any reason for it. Auto update is not set on this PC, and the second PC is set to Autoupdate only at 3AM, so nothing should be running that would kick me off.
I was just wondering the following:
1) Has anyone else encountered network problems after downloading the WIN XP service pack 2?2) Does anyone know of a utility that may be useful in monitoring and diagnosing where the connectivity is being lost? If I could prove to the phone company that it is not my equipment, that would go a long way I think.
Thanks in advance,
Steve