network problem or is this a windows 7 problem

ok i get my internet threw charter and got a webstar modem from them
i connect it to my router about 90% of the time but when i disconnect my router and hook internet str8 to my pc it will work i had to reboot my pc thou
should i have to do that in win. 7 also same issue with my router but when i rebooted it didnt pick it up my internet stayed disconnected for a good min. saying there was no conection should i just give it about 20 min. next time and see if it connects or is this a windows 7 problem or network
if its win7 or ntwork how to speed the recognize of internet up

by resetting the router you mean unplug it and give it a min. then plugging it back up right

if you disconnect your router (why would you?) then connect to modem--it's NOT necessary to reboot---just go to Device Manager--choose your 'network adapter'--disable it--then enable it

would that reset my ip as well

"would that reset my ip as well"

if you have your machine set to a static IP address--then the answer is no.

other than that--broadband internet connections are based on the IP address of the 'modem' and most people just use the standard router configuration with dynamic IPs for their machines through the DHCP server settings--if you have a 'static' IP address on your machine, you will need to reset it to 'obtain IP address automatically' in your network connection control panel and possibly also change DNS server to 'obtain DNS server address automatically (I believe the DNS server will automatically change when you change the 'obtain IP address..' setting)

ok im trying to get web pages to load faster
i have a nice internet speed 12mb dl 1mb upload from charter but when i go to some pages they take a min. to load any way to speed that up im also using firefox

here is a firefox hack that 'might' speed thing up a bit:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at
once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

nope did as you said and still its loading some pages slow