getting disconnected from Internet when playing games

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I cannot figure out what the problem is. Everytime I play certain games, I get disconnected from the Internet within about a minute of loading the game.

Out of the games that I have, this problem happens with the following games:

- Emperor: Battle for Dune
- Wheel of Time
- C&C Renegade Demo (I haven't yet been able to play this game because of this disconnecting problem)


This problem does NOT happen with the following games:

- StarCraft
- WarCraft II
- Diablo I, II
- Stronghold
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein (not sure, but I think it might have occured once, but I'm not conclusive on this)


I have a 56k Conexant HSF modem, and Win98 on a P3 733 w/ 128MB, and a 32MB GeForce DDR vid card.

Note that I am currently not having any other problems with my modem or my Internet connection in general (and that includes Internet connection dropouts).

Any ideas?
 
Is it possible that the server you are connecting to to play the games are not happy with your ISP/interent connection?

You really want one of the clever ones to give you an answer rather than me, heheh.
 
Sorry, maybe I didn't say it clearly enough.

I'm getting disconnected from the Internet within about a minute of loading particular games. I'm NOT talking about connecting to servers or anything like that. I mean that I just load up a particular game, sit back and wait a little bit, then alt-tab out to find myself disconnected from the net.
 
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I guess most ppl on these forums must have broadband, and are unable to help (fair enough).

Problem is, I don't even know where to start when it comes to figuring out what the problem is.

Anyone know of a program that monitors the Internet connection, something that might, for example, tell me what program or application is disconnecting me and when?
 
Who's your ISP and do they run some ad banner on screen that disconnects you if you minimize it?
 
I'm in Australia and I use a local ISP which is not a free one, thus there are no ads/ad banners of any sort run by them.
 
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