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Alrighty folks, I am going to attempt to be rational in this post, but my pile of shit everything is really pissing me off right now.

Here's the deal...

I have Roadrunner as my ISP. I live with two other guys, and all three of us have computers. I have a wireless card, as does one of the other guys - the last fellow just has the modem and the wireless router in his room.

It seems that I very, very, very often lose connection to the internet, especially while attempting to play a game - regardless of their current use, so I don't think it is related to bandwidth. Sometimes I lose it for a few moments, sometimes for much, much longer. It especially is a problem because it boots me from most games before it reconnects.

As far as my Network settings go, I have all kinds of connection that I have no idea what they are for... I am also unfamiliar with the difference it makes when a connection is "bridged".

Anyway, I have my wireless connection, a network bridge, two 1394 connections (both bridged) and a LAN connection. For whatever reason, I am unable to disable either one of the 1394 connections.

I originally thought that it might be a problem with the signal strength, but it typically hovers around excellent, sometimes dropping down to "very good" - and I will drop the connection regardless of the current status of it.

Sorry, it's a bit late (early?) and I have yet to sleep - hopefully someone can help me out before I start an inferno on my desk.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

(For instance, I have lost and regained the connection 4 times while typing this, and waiting right now to get it back before I can post...

Oh, I might as well add that I downloaded a different network manager as well, as a friend of mine continually dropped his connection having windows manage it. But, it didn't help...

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