every 5 mins..... my net cuts off then i have to restart my comp to get it back on so i think ive got a virus of sum sort anyone know out about it? juski??
is it a dial up connection? over a modem? could be a few things, like dodgy phone line, ISP problems, possibly a virus. Not heard of a virus that disconnects the modem. but try this : it's an online virus scanner. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp it's free and up to date. After that, get the Adware program to get rid of any spy ware. it's probably not that causing the problem, i'd say its more like hardware probs. Could be a dodgy modem i suppose
why do u have to reboot the pc to get it to re-connect? does it throw up any error messages when u try to reconnect?
its a cable broadband modem, every 5 mins it say page cannot be displayed etc then if i restart comp it comes straight back on!
might be worth contacting telewest for advice, see if they have any suggetions. Sounds like it's just losing it's connection which will either be the modem, cable line or their server. I don't think it's your PC. is it a fairly high spec machine? what O/S u running?
i have an internet splitter that may be the prob but comp next door never does this its an alrite machine on win 98 like
hhmm... could be - wouldn't say for definate though. i'd contact telewest, moan about the service - get them to check it out. sounds more hardware than software, if u know what i mean
try here...telewest connection checking site... if your on dial-up it verifies the line, if your on broadband, it locks the band (or something!)
i ran that virus checker n it found sum worm thing then fixed it the net hasnt went off yet like *touch wood* thanx!
good stuff. it's a canny decent free virus checker that, and it's always updated. thats proved me wrong then but atleast it's fixed!
Re: every 5 mins..... my pc used to do that all the time as well, fucking annoyin..........it dont really do it anymore, dont know why cos im not very good with computers but my msn always kicks me off now and i always have to sign in again all the time!!! :evil:
mines been doin that the last few days, but it seems to have stopped now. i got telewest broadband too, it might have sumthin to do with that. it seemed to do it when i was on soalseek.
Im on Telewest too and it does it for me ! As much as its broadband it does go slow alot like and the page error message gets displayed 0 i nrmally just leave it a while and then its works ok ! I have often thought its my PC but it seems its Telewest Broadband thats shit !
