Dear All,

This problem may have already had an answer posted somewhere, i have checked but cannot find the answer.

I have a one week old Sony Vaio VGN-FW31J running vista premium. The problem i have is staying connected to the internet, signal strength is excellent and another laptop i have stays connected fine.

I can connect and use the Internet,somtimes, but after a few
minutes my connection status changes to "local only". Sometimes it
will reconnect again on its own and give me internet access.
Sometimes I have to change the 'profile' in the LAN settings on the VAIO smart network. Eventually is seems to stay connected but if i close explorer and reopen the problem will reappear. I have hunted the internet and a number of people seem to have a similar issue with their VAIO but cannot find a straight forward answer.

How can I make the connection more stable?

Thanks for hopefully being able to point me in the right direction

Martin