Connection randomly cutting out? Baffled!

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Started a few days ago. I can be merrily surfing, connected wirelessly to my router then when I go to open the next page, I just get 'sending request' and the connection times out. According to Windows, I'm fully connected, according to my router, there are no wireless issues such as IP conflicts, but I can't use the internet. Mail, Firefox, Chrome, IE- nothing will work. Then I unplug my wireless adapter for a second and plug it back in and it will normally give me another 5 minutes until it happens again, sometimes shorter. The most ridiculous thing is, it only seems to start in the evening, I haven't worked out what time yet, but I can go all day with no issues, but of an evening it starts cutting out like this.

Every other thing connected to the network is fine, Windows thinks it's fine, my router reports no issues, my antivirus can't find anything... It just makes no sense to me! Maybe someone here can give me some ideas or has had the same problem in the past?

The most annoying bit is that I don't know whats at fault, so I don't know what to take the axe to!
 
It wouldn’t be unusual to find that there’s something local causing interference that’s only switched on in the evenings. Have you or one of your neighbours bought any new electrical items recently?

My first step would be to find out for sure if it’s just a wireless problem by temporarily connecting using a network cable.
 
I've tested and it's nothing in our house causing interference, although it could be the neighbors, the average age of my road is 102 so I doubt it. I've tried my USB wireless adapter in my laptop and it works fine, I've also tried changing the network channel to no avail. I can't use an ethernet cable due to the distance, but if this carries on I'll have to buy a long one and take a drill to the floor! Unfortunately, it now appears to be less that a minute it works for making it unusable. This is really winding me up!
 
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