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Random Connection Drops During Specific Hours
Ok so here's my situation. I will try to make it make sense as much as possible.
We have a home network with two laptops [IBM ThinkPad: XP and Sony Vaio-mine: W7] and two desktops [HP: XP and Compaq: XP], along with a wired-networked OfficeJet AIO, and a wired-networked PS3 On a Belkin N+ Gigabit Router. Everything is on 10/00 Cat5; the gigabit router was on sale and cheaper at the time so why not.
Anyways, this is the problem I am having. It is with my laptop specifically, the Sony Vaio running Windows 7. Every day, between the hours of around 8PM local and around 5AM local, I can be on the internet on Facebook, watching something on Hulu, streaming a movie from my laptop to my console, or playing a game, it doesn't matter: My connection will seemingly drop out. When it does, I try to ping the router at 192.168.2.1 and when I DO get a response, it's roughy 3500-4500ms before a response comes back, if it comes back at all. After about 10 minutes, it slowly returns--as in pings will come back, but will take 2500ms, 1500ms, 500ms, 200ms, and then back to <1ms like normal. This can happen as many as ten times in a night, or as few as three. I do know for a fact it WILL happen every night.
So I tried something, I turned off my wireless and plugged into the network via Cat5 and not only did my internet connection come back to normal but it does not drop at all. I thought it might be the wireless radio, but the other laptop that connects via wireless never has this problem, either.
At no time does the "status" of my connection change. It consistently says I have Internet Access.
I'm stumped. It just started happening one day with seemingly no reason and has done it every night since.
I'm sure there's a reason for it, I just can't figure it out.