BT Home Hub randomly resetting

I've recently moved from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Ultimate (both 32-bit) and one problem with W7 that XP never had is my British Telecom Home Hub 15 (white) router randomly resets itself, disconnecting me from the internet.

I can go days without it happening, and then have it happen once or twice a day. Then all of a sudden, it'll happen 8 or 12 times in a few hours.

I'm up-to-date with firmware, drivers, control utilities for all hardware in and on my system.

The router is connected through a Cat-5e Ethernet cable rather than USB or wireless.

It can happen when just using a simple browser, when downloading through Port 80 in browsers, or not using internet at all.

Firewall exceptions are in place, as is anti-virus and anti-spyware.

Is this common? Because it's damned annoying - I'm just about ready to go back to XP Pro because of it. Is there a "fix" cure, or workaround? I've read somewhere it may be to do with "max open connections" but everything I tried regarding limiting that in browsers or download utilities result in no apparent change to this occurring.

Also : Where's the "Internet system tray icon > right-click -> Repair connection" gone that was in XP?

Lone Wolf said:

I've recently moved from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Ultimate (both 32-bit) and one problem with W7 that XP never had is my British Telecom Home Hub 15 (white) router randomly resets itself, disconnecting me from the internet.

I can go days without it happening, and then have it happen once or twice a day. Then all of a sudden, it'll happen 8 or 12 times in a few hours.

I'm up-to-date with firmware, drivers, control utilities for all hardware in and on my system.

The router is connected through a Cat-5e Ethernet cable rather than USB or wireless.

It can happen when just using a simple browser, when downloading through Port 80 in browsers, or not using internet at all.

Firewall exceptions are in place, as is anti-virus and anti-spyware.

Is this common? Because it's damned annoying - I'm just about ready to go back to XP Pro because of it. Is there a "fix" cure, or workaround? I've read somewhere it may be to do with "max open connections" but everything I tried regarding limiting that in browsers or download utilities result in no apparent change to this occurring.

Also : Where's the "Internet system tray icon > right-click -> Repair connection" gone that was in XP?

I suspect you are using the homegroup model for networking On some systems it can cause random disconnects. You can verify if this is the problem by creating a new network connection using the workgroup model.


Ken.

In "Network and Sharing Centre"?

My Computer > Network > Internet
Network : Work Network
Access type : Internet
Connections : Local area network.

It does this random reset in homegroup, workgroup, or whatever designation I give it.

Actually only had it about 15months. I was using a Voyager210 before they gave me this hub, but I've submitted a ticket to their tech support, too. Might get an answer tomorrow, given this is a weekend. Thanks, though. :)

Update : BT sent me a newer model HomeHub, and touch wood, so far no disconnects, but I've only been running it a few days.

So, it looks like, the old one was either on its way out (they don't make them like they used to, eh?) or there was driver-support issues under the new OS of Win7. Either way, assuming this is fixed, I'm happy. Thanks :).