Weird connection problem! Help

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I have a 8mb dsl line and my main pc and laptop both connectvia wifi.

i can be on my main pc and randomly it will lose net access but still be connected to my router locally. when this happens i can still access the net via the laptop. Can somebody please explain what is going on.

I have to disconnect from my router and reconnect to get net acess back.
the signal strength is 100% on both laptop and main pc. Dsl has excellent stats.

adapter is Belkin F5D7000UK 54Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter

and i am on vista32
 
Can the main PC ping the router while it can't access the internet?
How do you know it's connected to the router - can you access the web interface or something, or is Windows just saying that it's "connected".
 
windows taskbar icon says connected I will try to ping router next time, it just happend :( so don't know how long till next time maybe another hour or so .

pinged www.bbc.co.uk = no response
 
i cant ping router either .

wifi apdater says not compatible with vista , although vista does work with it. could that be it if so recommend me an adapter please.
 
If the router works for another machine, then worst case it's another adapter you're after.

What IP does the adapter get while it's not working?
 
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