Losing connection to internet by way of router

[brianb22]

ok.  well i'll let it ride for now until i lose my connection again and then disconnect the router and see if that works.  if it does then obviously it's the router.  thanks.  hopefully i won't have to post anymore but if so i'll just come back to this one. 

[truenorth]

I am coming late to this party. But by sheer coincidence i was having a very similar issue this past week with an older Compaq laptop when i decided to rejuvenate it and create a wireless connection to the same system you have (DSL modem separate user owned router). The one difference that may be in play from the O/P is that i was using a wireless adapter on the laptop. Brand new adapter software and all. In my case the problem existed between the adapter (on the computer) and the router connected to the modem. If you are indeed having a problem with the router (and /or an adapter if one is being used) then i urge you to contact the appropriate hardware manufacturer and my experience is that they are very helpful. In my case either Trendnet or Lynsky . Your connecting directly via cable to the modem will definitely narrow down the issue. Then i would reintroduce each computer via the various methods of connect (wireless or cable) but only one at a time and determine if one alone will work uninterrupted. You may then find that it is only in combination that the problem arises. I note that another member has related to that being a possible issue. I have had on occasion up to 6 computers all connected at once (some wireless and one cable) and never had that kind of issue arise. When an issue has arisen it was always adapter related. truenorth

[brianb22]

am i wrong in thinking that if i have three computers using the net via router and one of them was screwed up then wouldn't just that computer lose it's connection and not kick them all off?

[Geek-9pm]

am i wrong in thinking that if i have three computers using the net via router and one of them was screwed up then wouldn't just that computer lose it's connection and not kick them all off?

This is fuzzy logic. When things are normal, nobody would have trouble. If one has trouble, the condition of the others would not be  never predicated on the failure of none. Is Thant clear?

[brianb22]

so here's where i'm at now.  bought a new router yesterday.  hooked it up with no issues.  connected my laptop and 2 phones to it with no problems.  get home this morning from work and my phone won't connect.  check the wife's phone and still connected.  woke up this afternoon and still can't get the phone connected.  just checked the laptop and it won't connect either.  all the while my PC that the router is connected to is working just fine.  don't know if it's just working for now or if it's actually fixed.
router i bought was a Cisco Linksys WRT 120N

[truenorth]

I suggest that you now disconnect everything and then trying them one at a time see which can continue to work uninterrupted for a few hours. Only test them one at a time until they have all been tested that way. Then with the PC connected try using it in conjunction with each other device again only one at a time. Eventually you can find which ones can work satisfactorily  together. Once you have completed that process you should have a clear picture of where the trouble lies(at least in terms of which device{s}). By the way is the PC as you relate in your last post cabled to the router? Whereas in the original post you were getting disconnects with the router now it seems the issue is with connected devices.truenorth

[brianb22]

my wife just got home and her phone connected right away.  laptop is back up to although i did reset the router so that might be why.  my phone is still not connecting.  i have a samsung captivate galaxy S I.  hers is the same model.  i've done pretty much everything but a full wipe of my phone and nothing has worked yet.  it shows the router i'm trying to connect to, it will say "scanning" then "connecting" then "disconnected".  just does that in a loop.  on the old router we would lose connection on everything, i would reset the router, everything would reconnect and stay that way for random amounts of time until it disconnects again.  with this new router i haven't lost a connection to the PC that it is cabled to yet.  which makes me think replacing the old router was a good start but who knows.  i'm def not wiping my phone until i have exhausted all my options.  i haven't changed any settings from last night when i first installed the new router and everything connected perfectly fine.  just don't understand why 12 hours later my phone isn't working.  could it be that once i got out of the range of my router something happened and when it came back it's not being able to connect because of that?  man i've read so many posts about router issues, phone issues, windows 7 being the problem, etc.  all i know is that i had 7 installed on this PC with the same router with 0 settings changed for months and then all of a sudden this crap started happening.