Constantly losing internet connection

[Icewolf]

Alright basement, I am here once more because I have been having the most infuriating online existence the past 16 hours. I have been almost constantly losing my internet connection, sometimes I can only open up a page of facebook or TWC before I lose it again. I was absolutely perplexed at what in the hell is/was going on. I have been having the recurrent "Default Gateway not available" symptom from my network diagnostic tool.

I HAD hamachi connecting to a network, I deleted the network so now hamachi doesn't do anything, now when I run the network diagnostic it manages to fix it somewhat... for a few minutes.

I have Xirrus WiFi Inspector, I don't know how to use it properly but if someone here does then cool.

I have an nVidia Geforce 460... I have heard that Nvidia drivers can do this?

Here is the report from my network diagnostic... anything else you guys need I will be more than happy to oblidge.

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Details about network adapter diagnosis:

Network adapter Wireless Network Connection driver information:

Description . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link DWA-160 Xtreme N Dual Band USB Adapter(rev.A)
Manufacturer . . . . . . . . . : D-Link
Provider . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros Communications Inc.
Version . . . . . . . . . . . : 3.1.0.76
Inf File Name . . . . . . . . . : C:\Windows\INF\oem9.inf
Inf File Date . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 13, 2008 1:00:38 AM
Section Name . . . . . . . . . : DLINK_DEV_9170.ndi
Hardware ID . . . . . . . . . . : usb\vid_07d1&pid_3c10
Instance Status Flags . . . . . : 0x180600a
Device Manager Status Code . . : 0
IfType . . . . . . . . . . . . : 71
Physical Media Type . . . . . . : 9



Diagnostics Information (Wireless Connectivity)
Details about wireless connectivity diagnosis:

Information for connection being diagnosed
Interface GUID: 60ab6c61-bdec-468d-ab42-207db09b4579
Interface name: D-Link DWA-160 Xtreme N Dual Band USB Adapter(rev.A)
Interface type: Native WiFi

Connection incident diagnosed
Auto Configuration ID: 2
Connection ID: 3

Connection status summary
Connection started at: 2012-09-21 11:49:38-349
Profile match: Success
Pre-Association: Success
Association: Success
Security and Authentication: Success

List of visible access point(s): 7 item(s) total, 7 item(s) displayed
BSSID BSS Type PHY Signal(dB) Chnl/freq SSID
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1C-7E-E5-31-FC-7A Infra <unknown> -50 1 TheFirm
00-1E-58-3D-70-27 Infra <unknown> -66 11 My Network
00-26-88-E5-F9-64 Infra <unknown> -76 11 LAY
00-23-69-5C-14-2B Infra g -87 6 linksys 1
20-43-6C-0A-BF-40 Infra g -87 6 LMEC
00-1E-8C-E5-10-30 Infra g -91 1 mangonet
78-CD-8E-D0-A1-49 Infra <unknown> -77 5 D0A145

Connection History

Information for Auto Configuration ID 2

List of visible networks: 7 item(s) total, 7 item(s) displayed
BSS Type PHY Security Signal(RSSI) Compatible SSID
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Infra <unknown> Yes 90 Yes TheFirm
Infra <unknown> Yes 58 Yes My Network
Infra <unknown> Yes 38 Yes LAY
Infra g Yes 16 Yes linksys 1
Infra g Yes 16 Yes LMEC
Infra g Yes 8 Yes mangonet
Infra <unknown> Yes 36 Yes D0A145

List of preferred networks: 4 item(s)
Profile: TheFirm
SSID: TheFirm
SSID length: 7
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028001
Profile: cct
SSID: cct
SSID length: 3
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002
Profile: Weiten
SSID: Weiten
SSID length: 6
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002
Profile: andersonstayout
SSID: andersonstayout
SSID length: 15
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002

Information for Connection ID 3
Connection started at: 2012-09-21 11:49:38-349
Auto Configuration ID: 2
Profile: TheFirm
SSID: TheFirm
SSID length: 7
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Pre-Association and Association
Connectivity settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Security settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Profile matches network requirements: Success
Pre-association status: Success
Association status: Success
Last AP: 1c-7e-e5-31-fc-7a
Security and Authentication
Configured security type: WPA-PSK
Configured encryption type: CCMP(AES)
802.1X protocol: No
Key exchange initiated: Yes
Unicast key received: Yes
Multicast key received: Yes
Number of security packets received: 3
Number of security packets sent: 3
Security attempt status: Success
Connectivity
Packet statistics
Ndis Rx: 8101
Ndis Tx: 6534
Unicast decrypt success: 0
Multicast decrypt success: 0
Unicast decrypt failure: 2800
Multicast decrypt failure: 0
Rx success: 0
Rx failure: 0
Tx success: 372
Tx failure: 0
Tx retry: 0
Tx multiple retry: 0
Tx max lifetime exceeded: 0
Tx ACK failure: 0
Roaming history: 0 item(s)

Information for Connection ID 2
Connection started at: 2012-09-21 11:49:27-141
Auto Configuration ID: 2
Profile: andersonstayout
SSID: andersonstayout
SSID length: 15
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Pre-Association and Association
Connectivity settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Security settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Profile matches network requirements: Success
Pre-association status: Success
Association status: Fail 0x00038001
Association reason code: 0x00000000

Information for Auto Configuration ID 1

List of visible networks: 5 item(s) total, 5 item(s) displayed
BSS Type PHY Security Signal(RSSI) Compatible SSID
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Infra <unknown> Yes 90 Yes TheFirm
Infra <unknown> Yes 58 Yes My Network
Infra <unknown> Yes 32 Yes D0A145
Infra <unknown> Yes 36 Yes LAY
Infra g Yes 10 Yes linksys 1

List of preferred networks: 4 item(s)
Profile: TheFirm
SSID: TheFirm
SSID length: 7
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: Yes
Profile: cct
SSID: cct
SSID length: 3
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002
Profile: Weiten
SSID: Weiten
SSID length: 6
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002
Profile: andersonstayout
SSID: andersonstayout
SSID length: 15
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Set by group policy: No
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No
Connectable: No
Reason: 0x00028002

Information for Connection ID 1
Connection started at: 2012-09-21 11:49:18-990
Auto Configuration ID: 1
Profile: TheFirm
SSID: TheFirm
SSID length: 7
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Pre-Association and Association
Connectivity settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Security settings provided by hardware manufacturer (IHV): No
Profile matches network requirements: Success
Pre-association status: Success
Association status: Success
Last AP: 1c-7e-e5-31-fc-7a
Security and Authentication
Configured security type: WPA-PSK
Configured encryption type: CCMP(AES)
802.1X protocol: No
Key exchange initiated: Yes
Unicast key received: Yes
Multicast key received: Yes
Number of security packets received: 4
Number of security packets sent: 4
Security attempt status: Success
Connectivity
Packet statistics
Ndis Rx: 0
Ndis Tx: 0
Unicast decrypt success: <unknown>
Multicast decrypt success: <unknown>
Unicast decrypt failure: <unknown>
Multicast decrypt failure: <unknown>
Rx success: <unknown>
Rx failure: <unknown>
Tx success: <unknown>
Tx failure: <unknown>
Tx retry: <unknown>
Tx multiple retry: <unknown>
Tx max lifetime exceeded: <unknown>
Tx ACK failure: <unknown>
Roaming history: 1 item(s)
Times: 2012-09-21 11:49:23-734
Roamed from BSSID: 00-00-00-00-00-00
Reason: 0x00000007
Disconnected from BSSID: 00-00-00-00-00-00 Reason: 0x00000101




Diagnostics Information (Wireless Connectivity)
Details about wireless connectivity diagnosis:

For complete information about this session see the wireless connectivity information event.

Helper Class: Auto Configuration
Initialize status: Success

Information for connection being diagnosed
Interface GUID: 60ab6c61-bdec-468d-ab42-207db09b4579
Interface name: D-Link DWA-160 Xtreme N Dual Band USB Adapter(rev.A)
Interface type: Native WiFi

Result of diagnosis: There may be problem






Diagnostics Information (Wireless Network Adapter)
Details about wireless network adapter diagnosis:

For complete information about this session see the wireless connectivity information event.

Helper Class: Native WiFi MSM
Initialize status: Success

Information for connection being diagnosed
Interface GUID: 60ab6c61-bdec-468d-ab42-207db09b4579
Interface name: D-Link DWA-160 Xtreme N Dual Band USB Adapter(rev.A)
Interface type: Native WiFi
Profile: TheFirm
SSID: TheFirm
SSID length: 7
Connection mode: Infra
Security: Yes
Connect even if network is not broadcasting: Yes

Result of diagnosis: There may be problem






Network Diagnostics Log
File Name: FADA95E7-AEAE-4A48-9FC7-4A3C4CD8068D.Diagnose.Admin.0.etl

Other Networking Configuration and Logs
File Name: NetworkConfiguration.cab

Collection information
Computer Name: ERIC-PC
Windows Version: 6.1
Architecture: amd64
Time: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:52:14 AM

PS: Not even once can I recall having problems with my iPod, or my laptop, ONLY this computer, OVer, and OVER, and OVER again...

Update: For about the last 30 minutes I have had a stable internet connection, I think. The issue I am having now is my ping is constantly over 1500 at least... i'm waiting for my ISP to get back to me on a chat tech support option and hopefully they're just resetting or upgrading or something but could it be something else like the source of my problem?

2nd Update: Well my ping has gone down now as well... I still have internet so i'm assuming its "fixed" although I would still appreciate an appraisal of my diagnostic if someone knows what they are doing around here for when, because it probably will conk out at some point