[KanoakaVirus]

Hey all,
My friend Natasha keeps getting disconnected from her Internet. When were talking on MSN she will get disconnected maybe 3-4 times per hour, she says 99% of the time its just her laptop , she sometimes uses her brothers laptop to tell me when her laptop wont re-connect. I thought it was a faulty wifi card, virus, or interference from something but after some Googling and finding some old threads on a similar subject, the answer often seemed to be setting the laptop up on a different channel with the router ? now i've never been a big fan of modems, routers etc so i have no idea how i would guide her on doing this, but if you guys think theres a different solution then id love to hear because , i kinda like talking to her haha cheers guys.

Also are they any good online virus scanners i could direct her to? i know Evil's malware thread would be a good idea but she isnt very patient and knows very little about computers and i cant get to her laptop to do it for her.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

You can change the channel when you setup the wireless connection with the standard windows connect to thing.

Have her disconnect from the internet, then (for Vista - you probably know how to adapt for XP/7 if not just tell me which it is) go Start > Connect To

and it will search for networks, then right click the network, so the options for security and I think IP addresses etc. comes up.

You'll also find a drop down box for the channel number - default is usually 11.

[HistoryGirl]

I had same problem with mine and I changed the channel and its been ok since. To change channel I just logged into my router using default settings admin and password -> wireless settings. Mine is netgear router not sure if you can do the same with other makes.

[Hybr!d]

1 6 or 11 are the recommended channels, being the 3 most isolated in terms of signal.