Disconnecting every 10-40 minutes

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I recently bought a new router, which seemed to be working properly.
It's one of the newest ones out there, therefore a very good one. My
internet has been working fine for a few days, until 2 days ago.

Don't get me wrong. I have internet, it's working fine, however, every
10-40 minutes (or somewhere around there), my internet seems to randomly
disconnect, and within 10-15 seconds, I'm reconnected again. This
happens frequently, and is extremely annoying when I am playing a game
that requires internet connection; I disconnect from the game, and have
to restart it all over again.

I first thought it would be my router, but I put my laptop next to me
earlier today, to check if the internet on that too, would disconnect.
It did not. It only happened on my computer. The internet connection
seems to be perfectly fine on all the other computers in our/my home.

First I tried checking if I needed an update for my wireless card, but
it was up-to-date. Then I tried resetting the router, and re-configure
the whole thing (and of course, remove the connection from my computer).
I also tried System Restore (in case I had installed a bad update/driver
the last past days), as far as 5 days back (as I said, this problem
started only 1-2 days ago). I even tried disabling power-save for my
wireless card, with no luck.
Nothing worked; problem still remains.

I am now clueless, as since it has nothing to do with the connection
itself, nor the internet, or even the router. It has to be something
with my computer, or Vista(?).

The weird thing is, however, that I have only installed a few Windows
Updates, and nothing else, this whole week. And with System Restore, any
bad updates would be removed, but that wasn't the cause either. This
just happened out of the blue.

My Router is a Belkin N1 Vision Wireless-N Gigabit Router, with
up-to-date Firmware (and I'm on Wireless, of course). My OS is Windows
Vista Home Premium 32-bit. My Wireless card is a Ralink T61 Turbo, with
up-to-date drivers, as well.

I doubt it has anything to do with the router, since the problem is on
this computer only, and no others (1 other running Vista Business, and
the rest running Windows XP); they do not have the disconnection problem
I have.

Any help would be appreciated. This is getting really annoying, and I
hope to get this issue solved as soon as possible.

Thank you.


--
Creowks
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