-- Posted by thoughtpolice42 at 9:08 am on Jan. 11, 2009 Hi guys for some reason whenever I turn my laptop off and back on, or sometimes when i put it to sleep, when it comes back up it can't connect to the internet. it sees the wireless network but can't connect to the internet unless i go downstairs and power cycle the modem/router I can't even access the router control panel when i'm connected to the network without internet, which seems odd would hard coding my IP address help solve this at all, or is there another fix? thanks -- Posted by GEEraffBby at 9:12 am on Jan. 11, 2009 It's never happened to me. Mybe that's why I have a MacBook -- Posted by Neodymie at 12:47 am on Jan. 30, 2009 Quote: from GEEraffBby at 9:12 am on Jan. 11, 2009 It's never happened to me. Mybe that's why I have a MacBook This is fail on so many levels... Anyway, yeah. Try setting a static ip address for your computer. It sounds like the routers not giving out addresses like it should. Does this happen with any other computers?