Wireless network - major trouble

[Ellie]

I have a wireless network in my house, and I can see the little icon in the bottom corner of my screen in the task bar.

The network is up for five seconds, then goes down for 10, then is restored and up for 5 seconds, then down for 10 again. And it's doing this constantly. Sometimes it stays up for a while, and then starts the cycle again.

It's reallt causing trouble, as my dad works over a remote access link to his offices for one, and for me I can't play any online games including my own as I can't stay connected for long enough.

Has anyone else had this problem or know what is causing it?

It's a linksys wireless router, and a belkin network card, I know that much. I also know that I have had it for over a year and have never encountered this problem until around last month...

Edit:

I can't contact Linksys or Belkin tech support as the Internet connection doesn't stay up for long enough for their websites to load.

 

[BlackHe♥rted]

whoa.
Checked for faulty hardware?
Software?
Internet traffic?
Leeches(people who 'leech' your internet without permission, slowing down the internet)?

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Another thing is - as stupid as it sounds - I use linksys as well, and I had hooked things up "in the wrong order"... I laughed my ass off when my sister was on the phone with the support, and they told her to do things in this absurd order, while waiting so many seconds in between - I stopped laughing when I no longer experienced this same exact problem.
Maybe unrelated - maybe just randomly fixed.
I'unno.

 

[Cruelty]

Hm... it's been doing this how long?
Have you made any recent hardware changes?

 

[Ellie]

About a month now. (But it goes away for a week or so and then comes back for like a day or two).

No hardware changes at all, but I did have the roof between my room and the room the router is in fixed recently, I don't know why that would cause a problem though, especially one of this sort. (I'd have thought if it was the roof then there would be either full connection or no connection, not a mix between the two).

 

[arcthemonkey]

Do you know how to reboot a network? Do a total restart. Disconnect everything, and turn off your PC. Leave them off for 10 minutes, just to be sure. Plug the cable into the modem, and then plug the power in. Make sure your modem boots successfully (If you don't know how to tell, then, well... there should be a ready light that goes solid and stays that way. If it doesn't, then you found your problem. It's either a bad modem or a bad ISP. Either way, contact your ISP first.). Then, connect your router to the modem, and power the router up. Boot up your PC, and it may work!

How is your signal strength looking, btw?

 

[Ellie]

I'll try that, thanks.

Speed is almost always 54mbps (which is my highest) and signal strength Good or Very Good.

 

[Mega Flare]

I'll try that, thanks.

Speed is almost always 54mbps (which is my highest) and signal strength Good or Very Good.

haha mines 100mbps! i win! anyways i would just get a new router...

 

[Rare]

Usually this happens when you have a router that is incompatible with the card (ie. a wireless N router, with a G or B card).

Since that doesn't seem to be the problem, I would do a network reboot.

 

[Cheeze]

maybe its not the router..Maybe its the router that hooks up to your comp that is messed up? Dusty? Dunno, I dont have wireless -shrugs-

 

[Tohsaka]

I used to get 10 second disconnects with a belkin router on wired. Change your network card, that's likely the reason.

 

[Charlie Fleed]

Also try to change the network-card driver's version.

 

[4StarGeneral]

It's the Linksys - Belkin thing. They aren't compatible sometimes. And Linksys routers don't work half the time anyways (if you have the disk for it, only use the EasyLinkAdvisor from that disk, DO NOT download a new version, it simply doesn't work.)...Oh and I wouldn't even try getting tech support from [linksys], they haven't replied to any emails I've sent them or any posts I've put up in the forum... (no, these are well thought out posts)