Mike, Not sure if this is your problem, but what you described sounds similar to what I saw. I have had problems with a Netgear wireless router with a couple different computers. Apparently the computer looses connection with the router when it tries to find a power savings mode. For my machines it did not matter if I was using the computers or not. It seems that after the computers connected to the router the driver for the wireless adaptor tries to save power.
Try setting your desktop's wireless adaptor to no power savings and see if this helps. You might find this setting via: Open Network Connections Right click the Wireless Network Connection to bring up its properties Click on the "Configure button" next to the adaptor name Scroll down to "Power Management" Set it to "High Performance" (at least this works for my adaptor) Good luck, Perry, On 7/5/06, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a rather odd problem. No, not that one, it goes like this..... > > At home, I have broadband access via cable. The modem feeds into a Netgear > wireless router, from which my desktop and laptop work. > > The laptop is working fine. On the desktop, I can use the mail programme > built into Netscape perfectly. The browser, however, reports refused > connections once it has been opened for more than a minute or so. IE will > also not function. Yet the email client continues to download mail. I can > access the router (during the short active period) and all seems well. It's > a secure network and nothing seems to have been tampered with. I have > up-to-date virus protection and have scanned for malware. > > It's almost as if an invisible firewall suddenly starts to function. Zone > Alarm is uninstalled at the moment, as it was causing me difficulties with > the network. > > Is anyone less baffled than I am about this? > > mike > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.ntlworld.com > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software > Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- <----------------------------------------------------> Perry Pellechia Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry <----------------------------------------------------> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
