My computer keeps disconnecting from the internet. It had been happening pretty rarely, but now it's doing it every ten minutes or so. It usually resolves itself within a minute or so, and reconnects. It's just my home computer that's doing it -- when I use my work laptop at home, there's no problem -- so it's something with my computer and not with the internet connection. Resetting the router doesn't seem like it does anything to help. Any suggestions? I can't figure out what's causing this.

Wired connection or wireless?

If wired here's some things to try (and remember to change only one variable at a time):

1. Check to make sure the ethernet cable is correctly seated in the ethernet ports on the machine and the router.

2. Try a different cable.

3. Try plugging the cable into a different port on the router and the machine, if available.

I recently went through the same thing, and it was #2 that did the trick. Which is a bummer because earlier this year I'd spent time running cable through the walls and installing patch ports so that I didn't have to run a cable across a staircase anymore to connect my media center to the router. The only thing that fixed the issue was, alas, rerunning the a cable across the staircase. (Note to self — you still need to investigate what the hell is wrong with the connection. It worked for awhile.)

Wireless connection.

I'm starting to think about upgrading my computer. AMD's new 8 core Ryzen processors look pretty tempting. Unfortunately, it would require replacing the CPU, Motherboard, CPU cooler, and RAM which gets kinda expensive, especially since I want 32Gb of RAM like my computer currently has. I probably should go ahead and get a case and power supply too so I'm left with another fully functional computer from the leftover parts. That would leave me with a desktop with an i5-4690K, 32Gb of RAM, and a 500GB SSD to find a use for.

I'm not sure I'm ready to do an upgrade though. That would be like $800-$900 which is lot for a computer.

Why couldn't you at least reuse the SSD in the new 'puter?

I have a 500Gb M.2 NVMe that doesn't play well with my current Motherboard (it had M.2 when it was still pretty new and is a bit flakey) which I'd use with the new one.

Didn't pull the trigger on the new computer. Still thinking about it. Microcenter has a great deal on a CPU/Motherboard combo undercutting Amazon and Newegg by quite a bit. Building and setting up a computer takes a fair chunk of time too.

I feel silly asking this...

I fibally got a headset for my Xbox 360. Partly so I can chat with my bf whole we play but also so the sound doesn't bother anyone else.

However I can't get the game sounds through the headset. It's a turtle beach haired headset and I have tried every configuration shown and still nothing.

The tv has RCA and optical audio .

I have googled and looked at videos on YouTube and I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about the XBox 360.

I decided that I'm going to hold off on a computer upgrade. Intel will be releasing their new processors August 21st so there will be more options and probably re-adjusted prices pretty soon.

My home wifi is still acting weird with my laptop. I've realized that, when it disconnects, it takes a while to completely disconnect -- if I've got Twitter open, then sometimes new tweets will keep on loading for a few minutes (but without pictures) while other windows say that there's no connection. Sometimes I still get Facebook notifications, too. And if I wait for a page to totally not load, and then click the "Run Network Diagnostics" button, then that usually fixes it. Any ideas how to stop this from happening in the first place?