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Originally Posted by cairo
so its very possible that its your drivers 
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when I go into device manager and find my ethernet adapter, it says drivers installed and working.
I would try updating, but I don't have a connection.
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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits
So, as for your situation, do you have other PCs onhand that you can verify that it's the connection to the Internet going down rather than a faulty NIC card on a particular PC?
Additionally, which modem did Comcast send you? Ethernet or USB? (I prefer Ethernet.) Do the lights on the modem show the disconnection? (I guess what I'm after is to confirm that Comcast is actually going down rather than something else inside your home.)
How long have you been using Comcast? If it's a fairly new connection, there may be a faulty switch on the line outside. We did have that intially and it was replaced.
We've also had one LinkSys router to go bad. (Even had others go bad before using BellSouth ADSL.  )
So, mainly you need to determine exactly where the connection is breaking down.
Good luck!
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there is NOTHING wrong with my connection or Ethernet device.
I am typing this on the SAME COMPUTER that vista is having troubles on, only I am in my linux boot. so if linux can access the internet on this computer, vista should be able to also. we have a cable modem with ethernet, the ethernet cable goes to a linksys router which is where all 3 computers in my house get their connection, and all 3 computers are fine, but mine can only connect in linux, not vista. my computer is dual booted with vista and open suse 10.2 (linux), my moms computer runs windows XP, and the family computer runs ubuntu (linux)
none have any problems except for when I boot vista on my computer.
tl;dr- the connection is fine, I'm here on a linux boot on the same computer the vista is having the problem on typing this reply.