My internet continually drops it's connection after a few minutes. I'm forced to restart to bring it back.I did try the diagnose and repair and it would only tell me that my DNS wasn't reachable, but I could access and log onto my work IP using IE8. So my internet wasn't stopped just unavailable for anything internet except this one webpage.After re-booting the internet would function normally for several minutes. I could go anywhere open as many tabs or windows I liked. Then whether I was using IE lightly or heavily the internet would drop out. I could usually continue working in the same page/tab as long as I stayed on the same site but opening another tab or window would give me an "unable to connect" error. Thatand I could still access my works IP...go figure!I've checked my setting's and everything is up and running. Resetting the lan sometimes works but I usually have to reboot.I've read a lot of posts regarding this issue but haven't seen a solution that applies to me, ie: wired lan.

Did you install the latest driver on the manufacturer's website for your NIC card?

yes everything is up to date

Braddds,I was having the same problem. After thinking about it. I figured out my problem, and found out I have had two DHCP servers running on my network for a while and only until I installed Win7 I started having problem with win7. The old DHCP server had wrong DNS server settings but the same IP range. When you are having problems, do a IPCONFIG /ALL and see what the dns servers are set, and compair that to when it's working. When I was having problems I would do IPCONFIG /RENEW and that would fix the problem. Hope this helps you a little.