It's pooter help time again
An odd and hugely frustrating thing is happening. If you know how to fix it I will love you forever.
Regularly, say every half hour or less, Firefox suddenly stops getting interweb. When that happens, if I load up any of my other browsers, they are also unable to get interweb, as is Eudora. However, Tweetdeck and ftp are fine, and my iPod touch is also perfectly happy, connecting to YouTube or whatever as normal.
The only way I've discovered so far to get interweb back for my browsers is to restart the computer. Disconnecting and reconnecting makes no difference. Rebooting the rooter makes no difference. Only restarting the pooter.
Wtf is going on?
Edit: Well, it's not just me. But no solution. Any ideas?
Edit: On secondhand_rick's advice I tried ipconfig/renew, and here's what I got:
Windows IP Configuration
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection* 10 while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection while it has its media disconnected.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection* 10:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : chn.comcast.net
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.or.comcast.net.
I googled the error message, and found tons and tons of stuff, but there's so much of it and so much different advice that I can't make head or tail of it.
I would really appreciate some help. I can msn or skype if it helps. I'll be online till about 7am UK time and then back again about 7pm.
Regularly, say every half hour or less, Firefox suddenly stops getting interweb. When that happens, if I load up any of my other browsers, they are also unable to get interweb, as is Eudora. However, Tweetdeck and ftp are fine, and my iPod touch is also perfectly happy, connecting to YouTube or whatever as normal.
The only way I've discovered so far to get interweb back for my browsers is to restart the computer. Disconnecting and reconnecting makes no difference. Rebooting the rooter makes no difference. Only restarting the pooter.
Wtf is going on?
Edit: Well, it's not just me. But no solution. Any ideas?
Edit: On secondhand_rick's advice I tried ipconfig/renew, and here's what I got:
Windows IP Configuration
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection* 10 while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection while it has its media disconnected.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection* 10:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : chn.comcast.net
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.or.comcast.net.
I googled the error message, and found tons and tons of stuff, but there's so much of it and so much different advice that I can't make head or tail of it.
I would really appreciate some help. I can msn or skype if it helps. I'll be online till about 7am UK time and then back again about 7pm.