Wireless Connection dropped

[TastyFood]

Hi I have a Wireless Trendnet TEW-432BRP router. My wireless internet connection keeps dropping every 30 minutes. After it drops it usually reconnects by it self in like 1minute. This is getting to be annoying since this occurs a lot while I play online games. This router has been perfectly working fine before. It is connected to the computer using an Ethernet cable.

What may be the problem?

Please and thank you.

 

[SolarWind]

Try this:

Start > right-click on 'Computer' > Manage > Device Manager > open network adapters, right click and open properties on your adapter > advanced tab > look for 'Link Speed & Duplex' and change value to '100Mbps Full Duplex'

 

[TastyFood]

I noticed that on the device mangers list, it shows a caution sign on the storage controllers. It says it may be corrupted or missing. Is that a problem?

 

[SolarWind]

You need a driver for it. Right click the icon and 'update driver'

 

[TastyFood]

Thanks for your help SolarWind

 

[SolarWind]

My pleasure. Please let us know if the connection remains stable.

 

[TastyFood]

The connection drops every 40minutes, but it reconnects quickly.

 

[TastyFood]

I need help please ):

 

[chev65]

Honestly it's not a Windows 7 problem or at least not one that I've ever heard of before, it's either your router or the network driver.

To fix this problem you will need to either update your router with new firmware or find a Windows 7 compatible driver for your system. The fact that connection drops in a timely manner every 40 minutes would indicate a problem with the router.

It may be worth while to check that you are using a clear wireless channel.

 

[Orbital Shark]

You might also want to try

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/120670-wireless-network-remove.html

It has sorted wireless connectivity issues in the past


OS

 

[TastyFood]

Now the problem is reoccurring every 20minutes. The internet sign will show it trying to identify a network, it disconnects and then reconnects again. Should I try what SolarWind suggested? since chev65 says its not related to windows 7. The only anti virus I use is avg, spybot and malware, and I think windows defender is on my computer. I did a virus scan and found nothing. This problem just started occurring a couple of days ago, everything was working completely fine. Orbital Shark, even thought the router is wireless, it is connected to my computer using an Ethernet cable, so will your solution work? I can't seem to figure this out. . I haven't tried your suggestion yet solar wind, but how do you access BIOS cause I tried pressing f12, and esc, and they seem to take me to safe mode or system recovering and other things. All of your help is appreciated. As well, I updated the Ethernet adapter just now, and the problem is still occurring.

 

[TastyFood]

 

[macgyver2]

How long has this been happening? I have brighthouse networks and I have had connection issues also and I have gone though my computer and router thinking it was my end when its really the cable modem a scientific Atlanta 2100 cable modem and for some reason it keep losing connection every so often and always when heavy load like games or hulu.

 

[TastyFood]

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This is what happens, then it reconnects.
http://img530.imageshack.us/i/internetconnectivity.jpg/

 

[TastyFood]

It started happening on friday.

 

[macgyver2]

you a brighthouse or road runner cable internet user?

 

[TastyFood]

you a brighthouse or road runner cable internet user?

Um, what does that mean? I think I have a road runner cable internet, since there's a cable that comes from outside, they drilled a hole into the room and now its connected to the modem. I use Rogers.

 

[macgyver2]

well, Rogers could be your provider. You might want to check with them and see if any services is being done in your area or about outages. You could do a test like I just did and started a video on hulu and then watched the cable modem lights and about 3 mins into the video the cable modem lost connection. This could be a issue for you too.

You could also try connection to your modem directly and leaving your router out of it and if the issues stay then you know its your router. I am about to try that test myself.

 

[TastyFood]

well, Rogers could be your provider. You might want to check with them and see if any services is being done in your area or about outages. You could do a test like I just did and started a video on hulu and then watched the cable modem lights and about 3 mins into the video the cable modem lost connection. This could be a issue for you too.

You could also try connection to your modem directly and leaving your router out of it and if the issues stay then you know its your router. I am about to try that test myself.

I'll try connecting it to the modem directly and see if the problems occurs with the modem. If it doesn't occur, then it means something is wrong with the router right?

 

[macgyver2]

Well my results are interesting, the load on the modem isn't disconnecting it now that my router is out of the loop. Now for me to figure out why my router would reset the cable modem. going to leave the video playing a while since I have had time where I could stay connected for about 20-30 mins so now doing the time test but when my router was in the loop either via wired connection or wireless it would drop under load or after a amount of time( which I didn't time between)