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Check your modem settings. Run the dianogistics test in the control panel. If the modem connects to the ISP and you can browse the internet for a few minutes, then it may be your phone line or phone cable. If it connects to your ISP and then disconnects automatically, you may have picked up a virus that requires a reinstall of your OS.

I had fits with this. Call your phone company and ask them about it. Usually it's got something to do with noise on the line. If you've got good customer service at your telco (yea...right!) you might actually get someone to look at it and fix the problem. Usually, though, they just blame it on your ISP, who in turn will blame it on the telco.

In the long run, line-noise is usually the problem. The solution...good question.

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