A while ago I had a problem with the network adapter on a Gateway.

I frequently had to reset it.

I found this article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

It has a solution when the problem is caused by
"The router or the other device does not support the DHCP BROADCAST flag."

Do you think this could be related to the problem I was having.
This sounds like it would be a consistent problem.
I was having an intermittent problem.