Serious internet connection problem need help very soon

Well, it's almost Spring. In the area that I live in, spring sucks. The rats come out, gnats and/or flies invade the home, bad storms that produce tornadoes and then drives spiders into the house, bad internet connection, the whole deal, and it all just SUCKS.

But today, I wanna complain about the internet connection. Every time, like last year, when spring comes and during summer too, the internet connection gets faulty and choppy. Every time, rarely during the winter, mostly during the summer and spring time, the internet connection every 15 or 30 minutes to 1 or 2 hours, the internet connection cuts out for about 3 or 5 to 15 minutes, and then comes back on again just to do it again very soon.

Every time, I try and get mom to call the phone company, or something, and sometimes she does, but she usually tells me we have to do some test so we can say we did the test they always tell us to do first before they actually help us, and this usually just stops at that point.

So, I have to get my mom to stop being lazy about it enough to harass our internet provider about it enough so they stop being lazy and send a tech. man out here to fix it, and then even when the problem is fixed, just 2 days to 2 weeks later, another problem appears. Sometimes a different one, sometimes the same one.

I've done virus scans and even turned off this energy saver thing, and it still acts up. Which reminds me of a question. Is a router or modem expensive? If so, how expensive? Because sometimes, I just want to throw it onto the highway and wait for a 18-wheeler to come by and run it over so we HAVE to get a new one. I live in the country, btw, and my modem brand is ZyXEL P-600 series, and my router brand is DYNEX.

Right now, it's trying this new method. And how do I know it's doing it? Because I'm trying to download a game that originally said only takes 3 hours to download, but every 1 to 5 minutes, the time rapidly increases, sometimes until it says it takes one day to download it, and then a few seconds to 3 or 2 minutes later, it lowers back down to 3 or 2 hours.


I'm tired of this bullshit, and I want to find some way to solve it before summer break. Since we don't have the money to go anywhere cool for summer break, I might as well make the best of my games. Especially my MMOs, which I can't play right with faulty internet connection.

Does this problem sound familiar? I tried googling it and binging it, and I got no results to what I'm looking for.

 

This makes me feel a little better. I use to play roblox before. It isn't bad, but I don't recommend it. I got perma banned for profanity. I thought they had a filter for that making it impossible for anyone to see it. Not only that, but with the many other times I got banned, I didn't even know they gave perma bans. It's not like it was a huge loss.

Anyways, thanks for the response. It's a possible answer, and it's a picker upper.

 

I can't remeber, I have to ask mom and dad.

 

Something new has come up. It actually found a problem. I did diagnose and repair, and it actually found something, after the internet connection stopped for two minutes.

It says: Cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com(65.55.21.250)

"Network diagnostics pinged the romote host but did not receive a response."

It gives me the option to rese the network adapter "Local Area Connection", but every time I do this, it fixes the problem, but the problem always comes back. It's as bad as or even worse than just waiting for the problem to pass.

 

My provider? They do act lazy sometimes. I'm gonna assume their staff is made of people who hardly care.

And it wouldn't suprise me if it was the modem messing up.

 

I might as well. It doesn't really make sense for internet connection to get worse the closer to the middle of the year it is.

 

Sorry for not responding.

Interesting enough, all wires go into the same router, and the router is connected to the modem. I've even switched the slots of the wires in the router, and they still act the same. I've noticed that my Nintendo Wii has the EXACT same problem as my computer, and it's also plugged into the router, but interestingly enough, my mom's computer almost never has problems.

I also discovered, that if I plug my computer directly into the Modem, the problem goes away, but then no one else can use the internet, so that doesn't work for long.

On the router, there's 4 green lights. One for my comp, one for mom's comp, and one for the modem. But what's the fourth one? It's also black, and I think it's for a computer we once had, but we don't use it anymore, so why is it looking like it is being used?

Could this have something to do with the problem?

 

You have my thanks! That sounds very likely.

 

Oddly, no.