how to reconnect to the Internet in Win XP

[kwfine]

Hi all,

I am using Windows XP SP2.
Recently I was doing with my friends on a school project, which involved
some movie files up to several hundred Megabytes.
While I was downloading a video (120MB) from the school server, I noticed that
the network connection icon on the Taskbar turned into a yellow exclamation mark,
and my computer immediately disconnected from the Internet.
I had no idea what's happened but to restart my PC and tried to download the video from my school server again. This time I noticed that when the downloading rate exceeded
500KB/s, the computer would disconnect from the Internet.

So every time when my PC disconnects from the Internet, I need to restart my PC in order to re-connect to the Internet successfully.
I am quite tired of doing this, and I am looking for some better ways to reconnect my computer to the Internet without the need to restart the PC.

Could you help me please?

Thank you.

Kitty

[ashboy039]

I am not quite sure but anyone can correct me on this. if you are using your school server it might be that there are restriction on the server and have set the allowed rate of connection specially on downloading files from the internet and reaching that limit would immediately disconnect you from the server. i suggest you inquire on your IT people in your school about this just to be sure or better yet just download it at home if you have connection there.

[vir]

if you sure that downloading rate exceeded 500KB/s,your network disconnected
why don't you try some download manager that can limit downloading speed ?

[smalldog]

Yes you should try NetBalancer tool to set download speed to under 500KB/s so you can download some files you want http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2009/12/21/monitor-and-set-internet-speed-priority-with-netbalancer/