homesick rae...if you're using a desktop PC in your upstairs office, just have a quick look and make sure your wireless antenna is still properly plugged in....my wireless network intermittently dropped out for months for no apparent reason until one day we moved the tower unit and found the antenna had been pulled out of its socket ...
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Fortunately the wireless router was close enough for the network card to still pick up a sufficient signal most of the time.