Why does my internet connection randomly disconnect and stop working every 10...

SaBaPi

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...minutes? Whenever I'm surfing the internet, about every 5 or 10 minutes, the page I'm trying to open does not work and after about thirty seconds of waiting, Firefox tells me "Address not found" and that it cannot connect with the server. But if I click refresh, the page I want will usually pop right up instantly. I don't understand why this happens, and it drives me crazy! The computer doesn't show that it looses the internet connection. It seems to happen more in the evenings. It's all very mysterious to me!

I'm using my secured wireless internet connection on a 1-year-old iMac running Firefox 3. (It's even worse using Safari...I even tried Opera!) It does the same thing using our even newer Macbook, but it doesn't seem to happen using our Windows laptop, or surfing the web on my iPod touch.

I'm not sure what to do, but this has been going on forever! Just to repeat, when I'm surfing the internet, it will sporadically not work for just one webpage, but then if I refresh the page, it works instantly.
 
I think it's just the browser timing out. It happens on my laptop also. If you go plug your connection striaght to your laptop does it still happen? Try that out and see the results.
 
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