When I start my computer or return when it has gone to sleep it rarely has internet connection. After I have waited something like 1-5 minutes it will usually establish the connection. However, there is no ''connecting'' or ''identifying'' texts, but it just tells me that ''no internet connection''. At some point, there just suddenly is the ''internet acces'' text. It's very frustating. Once I had a look at my router and there are these lights for every ethernet place indicating which are active. The light for my computer wasn't turned on when this problem was taking place. However, sometimes it does not connect at all or I just did not wait long enough, so I have to restart the computer to give it another try. I have also noticed that usually when I restart the computer in such a case it doesn't really agree to shut down. It just stays forever in the ''Windows is shutting down'' screen and I have to force it by pressing the power button. I don't know if it's related, though. In my ISP:s instructions it was advised to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and uncheck the ''Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix''. I have no idea what these mean. These things did not help, but I still let my settings in the way my ISP:s guide instructed. However, that guide was written in 2006 for WinXP. I have also tried using the troubleshoot option. Usually it doesn't find anything, sometimes it complains about Gateway configuration and once it solved the problem. I have also tried changing the ethernet port my computer uses in the router. I did not have this problem with Vista and the two other Vista computers in my family with the same modem and router do not have this problem. I have 20/1mbs cable connection, Netgear WGR614V7 router, old Motorola modem, E8500@ 3,16GHz, Asus PQ5 motherboard, 3,3GB ram, Ati Radeon HD 4870 with 512mb ram, Windows 7 32bit Ultimate build 7100. I have automatic updates so it should be the latest version.

Hi, Thank you for posting. Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following: 1. Ensure that the NIC driver is up-to-date. If there is a new version of Windows 7 driver for this NIC, please remove the current one, reboot the computer and install the new version. 2. Upgrade the routers firmware. 3. Boot the system to Safe Mode with networking and see if the issue persists. 4. When the connection is not successful, please check if you can access the routers management webpage. When the connections fails, please also run ipconfig /all in an elevated command prompt and post the results to this thread for our further research. Thanks.Nicholas Li - MSFT

Hello, Thank you for your answer. I have did most of those things now and here are my results: 1. I updatet the driver and it seems it made things a bit better, but didn't solve them for good. 2. Haven't done, but I could look into that if these other things won't help 3. When I started the computer in Safe Mode things worked how they should. I had immediate network access and Mozilla Firefox started just right. 4. I can't access the router's page when there is no connection, because my browser won't start up. http://img7.imageshack.us/i/ipconfigw.png/][IMG]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6269/ipconfigw There is my ipconfig/all taken when there is no network connection. At the moment the situation is that when I start the computer it takes some time before I have connection. I would say it's less than before updating the networking driver. During the time when I don't have connection internet applications such as browser or Spotify don't start. Firefox doesn't even start to show the page that should come when there's no connection. It just seems like it's lagging heavily. That is the same as before updating the driver. When the computer has been asleep and wakes up it doesn't have connection. However, at the moment windows troubleshoot always solves the problem. It takes some time analyzing the situation and then solves it. It says;'' ''Local Area Connection'' doesn't have a valid IP configuration ''. Beside the text there is a cross marking that that problem is solved. Can you help me?