[Waldo_II]

Alright, I'm a gamer, so this is more serious to me than it sounds.

Ok, so I am gaming like usual (online), and my connection drops. I reconnect to the server, and my connection drops again within a minute. I can't tell you when it started exactly, but it was in the middle of the day today.

So, I went to the command line and typed in "ping -n 900 www.google.com". The first twenty packets went there and came back fine, but then two packets didn't. About fifteen or so packets were fine, and then the next didn't make it. This has been repeating since the middle of the day. There is no exact pattern to how many packets survive or what order they do.

The next step I took in diagnosing the problem was seeing if the problem was on my computer or the network. I ran the same command on all of the other computers on my network. Only the gaming computer had the problem.

So, I pulled the plug on my router for a few minutes. I even did the same on my modem for the heck of it. It needed a break. The problem persisted.

Next I restored my router's settings to the factory default. The problem continued.

Now I determined that the problem was on my computer alone. I put in a PCI network card and tried using that to see if the problem was hardware or software-bound. The problem persisted even with the new card.

So, I am convinced that Windows or something on Windows is causing the problem. I'm a Linux guy, not a Windows guy, so I don't know what to do to solve this. What should I do?



One more thing about my Windows computer- I have dedicated it 100% towards gaming. The only things I have installed are games, and game-related background programs. I haven't even installed Firefox on it. I have four partitions on it- one for system files, drivers, etc., the next for games, the next for page file, the next for programs and the few documents I have on there. The only web surfing I have done on it is browsing a few profiles on xfire.com.

[00trav]

It sounds like you did a good job of diagnosing the problem. another step you might want to try is to boot up in Safe mode w/ networking and redo the ping test.
The two things I would suspect are causing this are 1) a networking driver, and/or 2) there is a program running in the background that is interfering with your networking (ie an anti-virus, firewall, etc.).