i desided to put the plug on the modem for the night and today i haven't experienced any disconnecting... i guess the 5mins. that my IPS recommended wasn't enough... thanks for all your help... Rich
recently reinstalled OS and when i'm browsing the net i keep getting that pop-up bubble telling me that a network cable has been unplugged, then if you hover over the connection it says aquiring address... never had this problem before. it's a cable modem, 1.5mb,  it has 5 lights on it, while typing this it happened about 5 times... how can i tell if it's the PC, the network, or the modem? how do i troubleshoot this?
losing connection, over and over