ALright, so my father is lazy.
He's the only guy I know who would set up a wireless home network for two desktop PC's and one laptop that's always sitting on the same desk.
Irritatingly enough, is the fact that we didn't even bother to set up the router's connection in the ground level, instead of in the basement.
THis is our second router. My younger brother and sister complained that the older, perfectly usable router didn't have a wi-fi functionality for their Nintendo DS's, so they got my father to buy a whole new router. Now, this router has been giving me all kinds of hell since we set it up. I've gotten almost everything resolved except for one issue. it's difficult to describe.
See, I always have a nice, strong signal strength. Connectivity is not a problem. Any laptop computer in the home gets a fine connection, though on my own desktop and my brother's desktops, my internet connection needs to be repaired at semi-regular intervals. It's almost as though the router sort of "forgot" I was connected to it. Page-loads will hang, videos will stop buffering, IM clients won't always realize they're disconnected.
Is this a problem with my wireless card, maybe? SOmething wrong with my networking settings, or even the router itself?