This problem has been going for some time (months) - but today it's so bad I've finally decided to see it there are any people here with minds warped enough to suggest my next step.
I take my Asus laptop (with XP) between work and home. My wife does the same with her ASUS laptop. The difference between work and home is that we have TelstraClear's cable connection at work - that's not available at home (just 2-3 km away) so there we connect via Xnet. As at home, there are just two of us at work.
My wife's system is fine. Mine is fine at work - but driving me beserk at home, not connecting smoothly to the Internet. It has done in the past - and it still usually connects eventually - but often runs through a period where my network connection is flaky. Today it's worse than flaky - it's unuseable. I've turned on the wireless networking just so I can connect for now.
So two laptops on the same networks - one problem. We've connected mine with my wife's cable - with no change (we haven't changed cables at the other end so we've tested both cables and router connection. This would suggest to me the problem is definitely in my machine. BUT (speaking very quietly so as not to tempt fate) I don't have problems at work - it connects fine there.
So I just can't figure where to go next. Any ideas?
Thanks