Networks

This may or may not be helpful, but I had a client who was having similar issues for months and even changed ISPs and DSL modems. Turns out, they had a baby monitor. On a hunch, I told them to disable completely the baby monitor and then see how their connectivity was. With the baby monitor disabled, they no longer had any problems with dropped connections. So, look for any RFI sources. I wouldn't have even thought to ask about those, but as I was asking about cordless phones, other wireless networks, etc. they happened to mention it. It's worth a try if there's anything in your environment similar to that.
I will say, the proximity of the wireless router to your laptop may rule out any RFI. But, it's worth a shot. I thought it was a long shot but it ended up being the solution for that client.

Does the problem still exists if the machine is hard wired to the router? This test can be revealing as to where the problem may be.

I know for a fact that browsers can become contaminated and will inhibit the internet connection, like with Conduit cookies, unvalidated add-ons and extensions and non standard search engines.

In effect, the poor browser is under attack and you are paying the price with intermittent connectivity caused by the contamination - which sounds like you temporarily fixing via resetting the routers and devices.

To this end, you may have a software problem and its not a hardware one.

I am new here and so I am updating this question here as I don't see anywhere else above to do so.

To those that responded, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Here is my response and updated information.

I do not have any kind of interference near me. I do however have a cordless phone in the same room as the laptop, but it's a DECT 6.0 which I do believe remember reading that it doesn't cause interference with wireless internet connections. Anyhow, I have unplugged it for a few hours and still experienced the problem.

Now, regarding the wireless connection, I am also at times shown that I have been disconnected and also sometimes my computer tries to connect me to another wireless connection, but the signal strength would be too weak.

I have tried lately connecting by cable, but through the router and have had problems, but don't remember the specifics.

So, what I have done is avoided the router entirely and have been connected with the cable and the modem only. And for the past three days, I have experienced the following problem: late at night my connection gets extremely slow. The pages begin to open up but usually don't completely open up. I have been using speedtest frequently to check my speed because of this problem and also because I called Comcast to lower my bill they offered me some promotion in which I am to be getting 12 MB/s and at about 20 something dollars lower than the 1 MB/s plan I was paying for. Under normal conditions, I get about anywhere from 20 something to 30 something MB/s of speed.

However, when my internet gets very slow, the speeds I got were 0.1 something and 0.2 something MB/s. When this happens, I unplug the modem, then plug it back in. After my computer re-connects, no page opens up at first. Wirelessly, I would be re-connected faster. I have to do the repair option about twice and then I am able to open up pages on the web. I then check the speed, and I get the normal fast speeds of 20 and 30 something MB /s again.

Possible Reason for problem: It's only lately that I have had this problem (a few months now), but in the past, I have had problems with cable tv and slower than expected speeds for my internet, and the first thing the technician says when he sees the connections that the cable installer did is that the connection is split too many times and is weakening the signal. They said that they were going to try to split the connection at the pole or something of that sort so that I can have the numerous connections I desire, but for some reason that didn't happen.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this.