I have a little problem which I am absolutely stuck with (a friend is also getting this so I suspect a Windows XP Update!?)
Surfing fine ... Mail etc all working
All of a sudden (no time limit or amount of traffic) I lose connection to outside world
I can still ping my local gateway (router) but nothing outside of this I.e.
www.google.co.uk
If I disable and enable my NIC then all is OK again until the next time it goes down.
I have already swapped NIC's from an INTEL to a COMPAQ
I have purchased a new router (before I found the dis/en NIC worked)
I have swapped all patch leads
I am running on 10mb with a 250 modem
I have WinXP Pro SP2 with all updates (originally thought it might by MS05-019 as this indicates some issues - done the workarounds and uninstalled it without joy).
Nothing in EventLog
I've run ethereal and am getting the odd:
[TCP Retransmission] and normally before the connection drops
What can I do to investigate this? - My mate has same problem on a Dell laptop and wireless network (can ping router but no further).