have to restart my computer to connect to internet

[KristyChandler]

Hi, at least once or twice a day, my Internet connection will drop, and I'll have to restart my computer to get online again. Invariably, when I restart, I'm able to reconnect. But if instead I try to "Diagnose and repair" my connection, or try to disable and then re-enable it, my computer will hang up, and I'll have to manually power down and power back on.

This is a fairly new problem; it didn't start happening 'til a couple of months ago, and I've had the computer for almost five years.

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