This may be a wireless router problem. Make sure it's updated with the latest
firmware.

In <1129473897.007814.292680@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com> on 16 Oct 2005
08:02:11 -0700, eric.goforth@gmail.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a cable modem that is connected to a Netgear 108 MHz wireless
>router. My Windows XP Pro computer is connected to it with an RJ45
>connector. My girlfriend's XP Home Edition computer is connected to it
>wirelessly with a D-Link 108 MHz adapter. Currently the connection
>strength is 68%. The wireless connection seems to work well for a few
>hours, maybe a day, then it stops working. Once you establish the
>connection, it never seems to go bad as long as you are using it. After
>the computer sits idle for some time the connection stops working and
>you have to reboot the machine to restore the connection.
>
>I've doing a "Repair Connection" in the XP Wireless Network Connection
>stuff and it tells me that it was unable to renew her IP address. When
>this happens her signal strength will say "Very Good" while her Status
>will say "Little or no connectivity." I've gone to a command prompt
>and doing a ipconfig /renew. I see:
>
>Windows IP Configuration
>
>An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection
>4 : unabl
>e to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.
>
>After I get fed up and reboot (which fixes her network connection) I do
>an ipconfig /all and see:
>
>Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 15, 2005
>9:42:12 A
>M
>Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, October 16, 2005
>9:42:12 AM
>
>I'm wondering if she's losing the connection when the lease expires.
>Is there any way to make the lease never expire? Any idea what's
>happening?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric

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