[iklebrit]

just found another possiblity if using nforce chipset, i havent had many dropped connections atall for along time, but just relised id decided to plug my usb keyboard into the one of the extra usb ports, and noticed that that actual usb hub is using the same irq as the ethernet adapter. so i put the keyboard back into the ps2 socket, so far so good, no dropped connections. im still testing using edonkey. to see if speed keeps up. this maybe why zonealarm is causing crashing etc.
but it doesnt seem to fix the problem installing old drivers so the problem must of been there for alongtime & just become relavant now.
probably why zonelabs asnt had many faults reported for zonealarm crashing, if you dont use those extra usb ports you wont have a problem.

ill report back in a few hours. too see if it disconnected or not.

well it did just disconnected, this is definately an ntl thing. i suspect its to do with ip addresses, should you have a lease of just 1 hour?