Posted: 11/23/2005 10:12:43 AM EDT
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My computer loses its connection every 10 minutes or so if I'm downloading heavily. The modem is still connected and has no issues. (tech came out and checked) I have to renew my IP every time to reconnect. Started about a week ago and I have made no changes to my computer. Cache is clean and I'm running AVG just like always. Tried a new ethernet cable with same results. Any ideas?? |
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I have comcast, and that happened to me once. Took a week to figure out they lost a switch on their side and would not resolve anything down stream, where I was. I could be on line for about 10 min and then lose my connection. If you haven't done anything and the modem says everything is good, then it is on their side. |
Are you dial-up or broadband... My broadband slows a little around 8:00pm to midnight while the kiddies download songs, pr0n, etc... |
I'm usually on in the morning or late night. |
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I had that problem. I don't know who your ISP is, but I had AOL. Every so often, on a given weekend, my connection would drop every 5 or 10 min, and usually my connection speeds sucked--33.6k was lucky. Well...that weekend ended up lasting for 3 weeks. I got so fed up with it I went out and bought myself a wireless broadband package last weekend. Now my connection seems to drop/reset once every 23-25 hours (my connection software logs the session time). It takes probably 15 seconds for me to connect, it's stable, and ... it just rocks. Problem is that they don't provide an email box, just a connection. So if I want to sign up for a BBS that has rules like this one I really couldn't do it. Shrug. |
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I have SBC DSL high speed. For about a month or so, my internet was disconnecting and the DSL light on my modem would go dark and then it woudl start blinking again and eventually reconnect. It would do it every so often and more often when I was using mutliple browsers and downloading. I couldn't even log on to Socom3 without a disconnect. Called SBC and they said that a tech would come out. The tech left me a message a few days later and said all was fixed. WRONG...the same shit was still happening. I was a few numbers aways from calling the cable company and getting cable high speed and tv hooked up when I decided to take the filter out of the wall and plug the DSL modem directly into my phone line. HOLY SHIT.... my DSL was screaming, no lockups, speed was about 2.5MB down. Phone and DSL work fine even at the same time. No issues and no more filters inside the house. I am thinking that they installed the filters at the pole or on the outside of the house now and by having the filter installed in the house it was being filtered twice. My dsl-fu is week... |
you were loosing dsl sync. different from the cable modem, although the results sound the same. bad wiring between dslam and your dmarc or the slick, the dslam and your house cause this. to get this resolved you have to find out who your LEC carrier is for your DSL circuit and get them to have a tech check the connections at each end... have them put a tbird on both ends and test signal levels.... |
Most Motorola Surfboard modems have a web interface you can get to by pointing a browser to http://192.168.100.1 You can look at the modem's logs and maybe get some diagnostic info to provide to your ISP |
In short - Check the model number it should be right on the front. Long version -- I have comcast and had a motorola 4100 surfboard, one day the modem just when neurotic on me, constantly resetting itself. The Tech came out and told me mine was the 3rd modem that day that he had seen doing that. Turns out all of a sudden the modem was no longer compatible. Well motorola pointed fingers at comcast and vice versa. Comcast said buy the 5100 and your problems will go away. It was bs but I bought the new modem and had no problems since then. |
If the DSL sync is loose why not just tighten it up? |
TV shows, I don't have TV cable.... ooooo I'm bad. Oh and some public domain classical music. |