So now that I'm back home, once more I have to deal with my parents' wireless router, which loves to randomly crash and become unresponsive for anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds at a time, at least twice per hour.
Whenever it happens, the router will, as I said, become unresponsive for roughly a minute, before coming back online as if nothing happened. During the 'crash', none of my devices can connect to it. Windows 7 gives the "Could not connect to (network)" error, and so does my iPhone. It does this most of the time, but sometimes it goes even further and the router will be undetectable for about 30 seconds. As in...it won't even show up on the network list.
I'm not sure exactly what brand the router is; I'll have to check some time tomorrow, but I know it's not a common brand like Linksys or Netgear. It's some weird all-in-one cable modem/router box. The coaxial is plugged into it and there are Ethernet ports on the back.
Any idea what's going on with it crashing at random? Really damn annoying, seeing as a majority of my games require internet connection. This general thing has been happening for years (despite Cox coming to the house and "fixing" it multiple times), but I'm still not sure if it's the internet connection, seeing as when we had a Linksys router a couple years ago, the connection was quite stable and only crashed once a day, if at all.