strange network

th3thirdman

I am running windows xp on the affected computer. What is happening is sometimes my computer disconnects from the internet but not net work. If am I playing a game the game won't get disconnected. I have been trying to trouble shoot this and I can't even figure out where to start. I could fix it on my own but I don't even know what to search for. My computer is wired and the rest of the computers on the network use wifi and are not affected.

AgentBryant

More detail is needed. What do you mean by your computer disconnects from the internet? You can't go to google.com, etc? If you're playing a game and this happens and the game isn't disconnected, then obviously you're not disconnected from the internet. This *sounds* like its probably a DNS issue, but you'd have to confirm the behavior. This would happen to me almost once a day with my ISP, until I finally just changed the DNS settings in my router to use google's public DNS: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

th3thirdman

Ok, yes I cannot connect to any website. If I leave the game I can not reconnect same goes for teamspeak. If it was DNS issue would it only happen to one computer on the network?

AgentBryant

I guess that also depends on your PC's settings. On my network, my PC resolves domain names to IP addresses through the router, and the router passes that along to a DNS server (in my case, it used to be my ISP, but now is google). If your computer is the only one that can't connect during this time, I'd have to guess that the DNS settings on your PC differ from the others.

Here's how you can change the DNS settings at the computer level:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305553

If your PC is set to automatically obtain DNS settings, then the problem most likely lies in the DNS settings for your router; namely whatever it obtains from your ISP. I'd change them both to google's servers listed in my previous post.

th3thirdman

Hey, sorry if this is considered bumping. But I did as AgentBryant posted, really good advice in general I have noticed faster surfing. But the computer started doing the same thing again. Any other advice would be great. Thank you all for your time.