I have been experiencing intermittent connectivity for about 4 months now and have been dealing regularly with my ISP to fix the problem, to no avail. They recently switched me from a cable to a DSL connection with same problem arising. We have cleared winsock errors, released and renewed something (sorry I can’t remember what), I reset my IE setttings back to default, have tried accessing the internet without my antivirus (Trendmicro 2007)/ and Firewall (Windows) activated, but have had no luck with these changes. I cannot restore my computer back to a date before this began, it doesn’t list a date 4 months back as an option. I?ve taken off the power saving option on my Network card, had my card checked out at GeekSquad, have had several different static and now a dynamic IP addresses. I am not connected through a router, it?s a straightforward setup. My old Windows XP laptop seems to stay connected with no problems.
The wierd things are that sometimes, (and I mean somtimes, each of the things works sometimes) resetting the modem sometimes works, restarting the computer sometimes works, diagnosing and repairing a connection that shows I am connected when I am not able to pull up an IE page sometimes gets me up (and says that there was no connectivity problem), and diagnosing and repairing a connection that reveals only local connectivity also sometimes works and again says that there was no connectivity problem). Please someone help, this has gone on too long.
