What the f*ck is wrong with my internet
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It has been crashing every now and then for about 2 weeks now. It started about the time that i got my new router, a Netgear DG834 yet some days everyting works ok. Can someone please tell me if that's what's causing this, some app i'm using or is the web so unstable because of all the worms going on and infecting the systems of idiots who hasn't patched them. :rant :banghead: :banghead:All i know is that i'm sick and tired of this **** and feal like i could just as well sell the damn router and not bother with the internet. Now i'm of to Ut2k4. Hopefully i'll someday be able to play it online without being cut of from the web. :banghead: :banghead:
Has anyone else experienced this?
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That is all I can come up with off the top of my head right now. Try some different things and get back with us.
Mike, I know what you mean. Problem is this-- probably right now it is junk load on your ISPs bandwidth that is playing havoc with gaming. PLUS, the router might not have a computer ID masq that your ISP knows to accept the connection routinely. You need to learn how to masq router to a legit machine ID that your ISP's routers KNOW.
IF it were just the router, all boxes on your LAN would go off net at once, probably. ditto for modem. Think about this-- do you have one box going off net while another box can still surf??? Does one particular box go off net more often??? Does putting one particular box online result in an internet service crash within 15 min of that box going online??? IF any of those are true, problem is not just router OR just modem. Tell me yes or no to those and I can help you drill down more.
It could be my isp that's having problems but the homepage doesn't mention it. BTW though the router might be what's causing this i did get it around the same time as sasser began spreading so it could be the web in general that's flaky. I noticed one user in dc++ saying something about a unstable line. BTW i'm using dsl.
Though i do have 2 boxes my old one is being prepaired to be sold by having win98 installed so i haven't tried surfing with it.
How do i do this.
The router has built in modem and sometimes services did seem to scrash almost just after working again.
Clutch how do i check the filters.
You might want to try switching out the telephone line from the modem to the wall just to be on the safe side. I know here in the states you can call the telco and get them to do a line check on your number to see if any static, etc could be your problem.
Try the filter things and then let me know how that works out.
Clutch i can't switch out the wire from the modem to the wall since it's 10 metes long. I was told to connect the modem to the first jack in the house and thats in the hallway.
Anyway as i was typing this and checking some other threads k-lite has been working perfectly but dc++ noticed that my ip adress had changed and stopped downloading. Since that's what's been happening most i wonder if perhaps it's only there that's not working ok. BTW only the jack that has the modem connected has a filter in it.
Since these are the apps i usully run i'll leave them running while i have breakfeast and see what happens. I haven't tried any online gaming yet so that's not the cause.
A long cord may be detrimetal to your connection speed, especially if it's not straight. I know that's not your probem right now, but w/e.
When I set up DSL @ my house, we put filters on everywhere BUT where the modem was.
From http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101208.asp
Hmm i don't recall having all these problem before i installed zonalarm so that might be what's causing this. I know that hardware firewalls don't stop outgoing connections but how big a problem is that anyway. If a virus tries to connect you've got plenty of problems anyway even if a firewall blocks it.
BTW where do i find windows firewall. Hmm looked in help. Still can't find it. Could be that it can't be activated since i don't have a internet connection just a local network. If so then zonelalarms is the bad guy. Checked for spyware to and nothing there so that's not the cause.
This still quite doesn't explain why my ip adress keeps changing. or could that too be related to this. Thoughts please.
Start>Connect To>Show All connections>right click on local area connection>left click on properties>select the Advanced tab. This is where the settings is for this.
When we setup DSL we put a filter on every phone device in the house, fax, security system that uses the number, direct tv, etc except for the line going to the DSL modem, odd.
The weather could have something to do with this, unless your phone lines are underground and not above, rain, etc..does bad things to phone lines. But this wouldn't change your ip address, unless you were loosing connection to your ISP because of weather and your router connecting you again.
I can't find that tab nor meny but then again as i said i have no "internet" connection just local network as far as the computer is concered. Of course one of the network ports are connected to the router but the computer doesn't know that. So windows firewall can't be activated hence why i think that if any firewall is messing up it's zonealarm. Can someone tell me if just having hardware firewall would be bad from a security point.
Yes that is odd.
All lines from the house goes underground. But internet seem to work just fine. BTW no connection drops has occured that i know of.
Is that other box finished installing win98 so you can try to test the connection on that one?
I still cannont think of why DC is saying your ip address has changed, let me do some more digging to see what I can come up with. We will get you straight one way or the other, haha.
I know now what you mean but i have no such options because i don't really have a connection to the internet
just local since the modem is in the router. If i had a modem outside of the router connected to the computer
then i would have had such a connection but now that is taken care of by the router so windows firewall can't
be activated.
Yes it's finished but won't reboot after i've run the setting up a small network wizard. It just hangs so i
don't use it much. I think i'll start over on it then just sell it. It did feel nice to have a second rig for
a while untill i tried installing win98 on it which takes just forever, yet win98 came with that box before i
installed xp so it's much more capable of running it. I also have an other issue that i need to check out on
the box but that's for another thread if i can't solve it. Please look at http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139404#post139404.
Thnaks that would be nice.
Hmm that edonkey thing sounds bad. You might be on to something with that upload speed thing since i noticed that while k'lite where working on many files at the same time, opera would open webpages more slowly. I need a faster router.
I don't either understand why my ip would change yet my connection remain. Isn't there any networking guru in this place that can tell me what's going on.
No not yet. I'll try the router logs and see if i find anything.
Now that you have been in the router, every once in a while when you have to reset it look afterward, see if the IP has changed. IF so, contact the ISP and make sure they have the right modem def associated to your modem on their servers, if you get a lot in 24-48 hours like this. I have had isolated cases like this, though they are so TIRED of me talking at them about the wrong modem def file being used that it is now written down and checked by them and it rarely happens, but, might be worth a check.
It has happened to me with 3 brands of modem, and I exchanged 6 modems before buying my own and called on average every other week with that one until it got to the point where I now get third level tech support whenever I ask for tech support. I didn't swear, just kept calling back until things got fixed, mentioned how long I was on hold each time, and over a couple years had a service log for my account that half the time HANDED them the answer as to what was up THIS time.
They finally figured out that their lease update server local to me kept thinking I had a Toshiba modem, I actually have a Zoom-- they'd reset the def to Zoom of my modem's kind, server would detect Toshiba when deciding how to program the modem, things would go fubar, I woudl call (and local Comcast office is STILL trying to figure out how I got a ComCast PRIORITY WEEKEND response trouble ticket written out of a Comcast 800 number response center dedicated to KENTUCKY ComCast customers (answer, Florida ComCast number was long distance, over next two weeks they got troble reports for my little account from 5 states worth of call-in centers for ComCast). My IP and lease renews now come from a lease server in a state halfway up the east coast of the US-- this was ARRANGED and SET UP by Comcast.... IT knows how to talk to my Zoom, REAL well.
Adivce, build a trouble log with trouble reports. MAKE them log them, call back, have supervisor see if your call is in the log if techs seem not to be able to look up your past history. Some problems get solved by more and more symptoms being reported over time untila tech looks at log and says-- hmmm... what's LEFT that is possible MIGHT be this, and dang if it does not fix it sometimes that way when the user is tearing hair out again and again. And keeps saying REPEAT PROBLEM, STILL NOT FIXED, until it DOES get fixed.
so that means i can't use it. to bad really. i'm looking for song made by an artist called michael b tretow. he has done many kinda weird song and he likes using his voice in different pitches or mix in other weird sounds. unfortnualty his songs are pretty impossible to come by in the stores hence why i'm trying to download it. Shareaza is by for the best place to look but for that to work i have to have edonkey since it's the biggest network.
it should be noted that dc has been running for almost 20 minutes without changing ip, then again it hasn't been downloading anything nor do i have any other apps using the internet other than opera that are downloading that zipfile for ut2004. i had apparently aborted the download yesterday. as soon as it's complete in about an hour i'll try running shareaza again and see if i can get it to work without crashing the internet.