Internet turns off

[Marcus CS]

I recently went to the malware removal forum and went through the process. Everything seems to be going well, but my internet connection has turned off two days in a row around the same time. Both times it was late at night and when I checked my main computer to see what was wrong the anti phishing for my firewall was turned off(maybe the program is conflicting with the other program I have Web of trust). After all this happens the next morning my internet is completely fine. Is it just my internet provider or do I have to clean my pc again.

 

[DelJo63]

get a command prompt and enter ipconfig /all
you will see something like

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : xxxcom
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.4
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 209.18.47.61
                                            209.18.47.62
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:18:50 PM
        [B]Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 18, 2038 7:14:07 PM[/B]

that LEASE is your ISP's means to hold your connection and as you see, mine is almost forever :wave:

That's very atypical; ususally it is for a month, week, or most frequently just 24hrs which I think is your status.

 

[Marcus CS]

That's awesome. I was worried it was more serious than that. How do I change the lease time.

 

[Marcus CS]

Also it doesn't show a lease time when I enter ipconfig/all. Is this because my ip address is static?