Yeah, that's about the time it takes for the router default timer to time out.
My ACER came with a suite of programs called Empowering technology. One of those progs is a utility to organize and maintain connections of all kinds. It works well and gives you a lot of easy control.
If you don't have it, it is on the ACER driver site, and you might try itif they have it for your particular model and sn.. I have no other ideas at this time, and really am stumped as to why it will not maintain.
I have a XP machine that did something very similar, and I tried everything to get it to work. I never found it, and one day I simply deleted the linksys apps and the connection and started over. This time I went from the standard 16bit security to the 26 digit 128 bit WEP and the problem miraculously went away. I know I had tried this before, but I never went to the 128 bit. We have a dozen or so networks in range, and I suspected that there was some sort of interference. This computer is at the other end of my house and seems to recieve more signals from other sources. But I am not sure.
Yes, but assigning a fixed IP to the wireless card (as I did, temporarily) removes any lease issues, as DHCP is no longer used. It could have something to do with the encryption, though AFAIR, I had taken encryption completely off line, which also didn't seem to help.
My ACER came with a suite of programs called Empowering technology.
A good idea. My Acer 5570z came with the same- and a great utility suite, too. But I like a lean box, and had eliminated this and many more items from startup. I will let it crank up and see if it likes the nic any better... though I doubt it. As I said, network problems happen quite a bit with Vista.
This time I went from the standard 16bit security to the 26 digit 128 bit WEP and the problem miraculously went away.
Already running WPA(p). Changed encryption to no effect. It isn't the router. I have used several known good routers to no avail. It is Vista.