T.L said:
Have you done a malware/virus scan recently?
Opening a tab should use next to no RAM
If winamp is stuttering when this happens it sounds like something is running and your running out of RAM.
As I said earlier we now know through two modems and now your WIFI is ok. so it's specific to your laptop.
As Threadweaver said open your device manager and check to see if there is a yellow dot next to the network adapters. If not open the tab and under power management make sure that the check box for 'allow computer to turn this device off to save power is 'NOT' checked.
Micro$oft does strange things with updates. I have found this box checked after updates even-thou it's a desktop.
Opening a tab should use next to no RAM
If winamp is stuttering when this happens it sounds like something is running and your running out of RAM.
As I said earlier we now know through two modems and now your WIFI is ok. so it's specific to your laptop.
As Threadweaver said open your device manager and check to see if there is a yellow dot next to the network adapters. If not open the tab and under power management make sure that the check box for 'allow computer to turn this device off to save power is 'NOT' checked.
Micro$oft does strange things with updates. I have found this box checked after updates even-thou it's a desktop.