[Serra Britt]

I've been having an issue ever since I moved. I now have DSL for my internet, and in general it's fine, but I have periods of "dead time" for up to a minute, and it happens often, sometimes as often as 20 minutes between them. I tried connecting my computer directly to the modem and as of yet I haven't had the problem, but I kind of need the router since there's two computers and game systems in the house.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what might cause such a thing to happen? I have had both an IP set by the router, as well as a static one, though both computer lose connectivity at the same time so I doubt it has to do with IP. I also have two ports forwarded on the router but again...I can't imagine how that would affect something.

I've had the same router for a long time but it only started doing this after I moved. I had cable internet before, though I'm not sure that has anything to do with the problem.