browser not connecting

[pigmaster]

I have this problem. I turn my computer on and everything seems to work fine. I connect to the internet just fine with firefox, IE, Trillian, and Utorrent. However after about 1-3 hours of my computer being on, my browsers stop connecting (giving me the timed out message) However I am still able to be on trillian and use Utorrent just fine. So I have to restart in order for the broswers to connect agian.

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[superdave1984]

Do you have a router?

 

[pigmaster]

yep.

 

[superdave1984]

DHCP enabled? If so, how often does it renew IP's?

 

[pigmaster]

DHCP is on the router right? Yeah it's enabled. The lease time is 1 day if that's what you are talking about.

Could this be any kind of virus that is doing it to me?
I have eTrust Security Suite on

 

[Elbatrop1]

I have this problem. I turn my computer on and everything seems to work fine. I connect to the internet just fine with firefox, IE, Trillian, and Utorrent. However after about 1-3 hours of my computer being on, my browsers stop connecting (giving me the timed out message) However I am still able to be on trillian and use Utorrent just fine. So I have to restart in order for the broswers to connect agian.

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I had this problem when using Zonealarm. I also have a router, and for whatever reason, Zonealarm would stop passing web traffic, but MSN and uTorrent would keep working.

If you have a firewall, I'd try resetting it. Or, depending on how concerned about security, you could turn it off and use the Windows firewall, as well as the security that having a router provides.

 

[pigmaster]

I have ETrust PErsonal Firewall. Which when I look at it seems almost identical to ZoneAlarm. Is there anyway to configure it to allow browsing traffic through?

 

[Elbatrop1]

I have ETrust PErsonal Firewall. Which when I look at it seems almost identical to ZoneAlarm. Is there anyway to configure it to allow browsing traffic through?

When I was using ZA, all of the settings were exactly as they should be. But for whatever reason, it would just stop passing web traffic after a while. I would turn of ZA, and it would work fine again. I was never able to actually find a way to fix ZA.

 

[pigmaster]

bummer. Maybe I will just have to start restarting it whenever I have that problem, thanks for the advice !!

 

[GSM CEO]

Try turning your router off, leaving for 1 minunit and turning it back on


that allways fixes mine