Originally Posted by
george1979
Hi,
hope you guys can help. My internet connection (Virgin 20Mb) is really erratic of late. I have noticed it doing this a few times recently but today it is just unbearable, only staying online in 2 or 3 minutes bursts at a time. It will often come back on its own before long or if I go into network connections it will sometimes allow me to reconnect from there.
I have done the usual 'IT fix' of powering down both the modem, router and PC but it has no effect. It is a Netgear WGR614 router.
Also it happens on my flatmate's laptop at the same times so pretty confident it is not anything to do with my PC. Both are connected thru Wi-Fi.
I have an old XP machine connected to the router via ethernet but I'm just waiting for it to boot up as its slow as hell. Will let you know if this works.
Any help you can give would be appreciated.
thanks
EDIT: forgot to mention I called virgin and asked them to send me their home hub thingy but that may not get to me before new year and I'm hoping to have the use of the net during the holidays.