internet connection drops several times a day

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Running XP pro and connected to internet via residential
gateway and dsl model - My internet connection drops
several times a day (3 - 6) and I have to reboot my PC to
reestablish the connection. I DO NOT have to reboot the
gateway or modem, only the PC. 3 other people I know have
the same problem and we're all using different gateways
and DSL modems.

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
DC;
What does the Event Viewer show? Did you lose your IP lease?

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Running XP pro and connected to internet via residential
gateway and dsl model - My internet connection drops
several times a day (3 - 6) and I have to reboot my PC to
reestablish the connection. I DO NOT have to reboot the
gateway or modem, only the PC. 3 other people I know have
the same problem and we're all using different gateways
and DSL modems.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Address this through your ISP tech support and or phone line provider.
I doubt it's your OS causing the problem.
 
NobodyMan said:
Address this through your ISP tech support and or phone line provider.
I doubt it's your OS causing the problem.
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I think the problem is with XP. I had the same problem with my cable
modem connection. I saw a tip about running services.msc (from
Start/Run) and turning off some of the services that XP Pro runs by
default. I set several of the services that didn't apply to my home
network situation to manual startup. That seems to have cured my
problem. I think the particular service that may have been the culprit
was DNS Client.
 
Cecil,

Thanks for the help, it worked perfectly on my machine as
well as the other 3 machines...no more disconnects, it's
great!
 
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