[CS-FSLUG] weird network problems

[David M.]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:40 pm, Tim Young wrote:
> (grin) You certainly do take the wind out of my sails all the time.  :)  If
> you lose your connection every 5 min it probably is not directly a DHCP
> issue but it might be an indirect result of it.  You may need a new
> cable-modem.  But do not pursue that yet...
>
> 1) If you do have 2 static IP addresses, then I would certainly try to
> hard-code those numbers in your router instead of having a DHCP address. 
> If your cablemodem is going on the fritz having your IP address hardcoded
> may help a little.
>
> If your log file is not reporting anything wrong with the WAN connection
> then your cable router might be messed up.  Usually the log file will
> report things like DOS attacks, changes in IP addressess, and your link
> going down.  If none of these are getting reported, then you probably have
> a dud cablemodem.
>
> 2) If you have your IP address hardcoded, try turning off and on the
> cablemodem when your connection dies.  If this fixes the problem, it does
> not mean the problem is NOT the router, as turning off and on the
> cablemodem will drop the connection to the router.  If powering on and off
> the cablemodem has an effect, next time try unplugging the network cable
> between the two.  This will also drop the link to the router.  If that has
> no effect but the first one did, then it is probably the cablemodem.
>
> 3) If you have a friend on your cable-segment (a neighbor, someone on your
> block, or same apartment) who can ping your IP address when you lose
> connectivity that may be helpful.  If you have the ping enabled (It seems
> you have one option, "block WAN requests" that does this.  You really want
> this to be set to "enabled", but for this test you could disable it.) then
> someone should be able to ping your router.  If they can do it from the
> same network segment then it does not have to go through the cable company
> first, which removes one level of potential problem.
>
> If you can be pinged, when your connection is down then you have a problem
> with your router.

Well I'm certainly not going to take the wind out of your sails this time my 
friend. As a matter of fact, I haven't lost connection since yesterday when I 
tried your recomendation and hard coded the IP address and Gateway and the 2 
DNS addresses into the router.

So far so good. no connection loss.

On a side note, would you by any chance know how I can give a speed boost to 
the wireless client? On my machine I am getting 52.316 MBps which is faster 
than a T2 line on my machine but the wireless machine gets only around 150 - 
200 Kbps which is around an ISDN line. Would you by any chance know what 
would either cause this or a way to distribute the speed between both 
computers?
-- 
David M.
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