Has anyone noticed their net connection dropping in and out on 7?? One miniute its fine, the next its gone, then as if by magic, it works again! Network and Sharing Centre says that either it can only see the local area network in my house, or it says its connected to the net fine, but no pages or email will work.

Hi,I have no problems with my internect connection at all. Did this problem started when you installed Windows 7 Beta? Have you checked that you have installed the latest drivers for your network adapter? Normally you can safely install the driver for Windows Vista.Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine, Austria

I have both the 32bit and 64bit installed and multi-boot (I also have Vista HB). I am finding my wireless adapter on the 64bit version starts up but after some time it just gets 'disabled' but the network wizards aren't able to either detect that and are unable to fix it. it offers to run the wizard as Admin but doesn't make any difference. Manually enabling it doesn't always work either and when I click to restart, the system just hangs so I have to manually power-off. This hasn't happened with the 32bit which I have used more than the 64it for this reason. The 64 bit also seems slower and the assessment rating is lower too. No what I was expecting. Old Guy

its just done it now in Vista aswell!I thought it was to do with 7 coz its beta, but it might be my network setup. I have a Netgear DG834G router setup as a switch, and then its connected to a powerline adapter which links to the router in the front room. in vista it says the internet is connected on the network centre, but it doesnt work! it must be something daft like a setting as it can see the network fine.

Try uncheckingInternet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) in your network settings,, I was having this very same problem.... This worked for me.

ooh thanks. Could you please clarify exactly which network settings i need. Do you mean the network adapter settings.? IF so VPU doesnt appear! I have the followingQoS Packet SchedulerFile and Printer Sharing for Microsoft NetworksReliable Multicast ProtocolInternet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)Internet Protocol Version 5 (TCP/IPv4)Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O DriverLink-Layer Topology Discovery ResponderThanks for your help lol i'll be well happy if this works, i've aready updated my drivers from my NIC as the ones windows installed were from 2007, and the ones on the manufacturers site was 2008!

Sorry I did edit my post,, I wanted to say Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)I shouldn't post with a headache :P

lol! ok. It seemsto behaving now anyway lol. I driver update seemed to fixed it! seems 7 installed a 2007 version while a 2008 version was available from website. lol

I take that back. Its started doing it again. Even with the new driver and also v6 turned off! odd as my xbox is on the same connection and works fine! what on earth could it be??

After 2 days mine did too.I was reading other post and found one that has you edit your regedit.This post was from Kerry:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928233If you read it , it will tell you what may cause your problem.I did it and so far so good.Only time will tell.G/LRon

I was experiencing the same issues. I have a motherboard with an Nvidia chipset. The upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 installed Microsoft's (old) Nvidia nic driver. I downloaded the newest drivers from the Nvidia site and my problems went away. I've had no networking problems since (about 3 days now).