[Watford] Broadband Access problem

[Mark Stewart]

Hi Cliff,

When you say connected I presume you mean your modem connecting to your
ISP? and also that you can connect if you log onto your router and
manully hit the connect button? Or is this a network connect issue -
have you tried fixed IP addresses locally instead of DHCP?

Here is my experience thus far of Netgear:-

I have a Netgear RangeMax DG834N. Which I have replaced twice, I know
Netgears customer support quite well by now. (Indian call centre woes!)

Anyways, when it works now it works well. However sometimes I have to reboot
a few times for Wirelessto start working properly.

The first ADSL modem that I had died out of Warranty - DG834. As Neel will
tell you we CRONed a script on a FreeBSD
box that was connected to the router to connect to my ISP if it was
disconnected, the router had a nasty habit of dropping the ADSL connection
every so often. (ran every 10 mins). i can dig out the script if you wish -
 also I have a spare Linksys WAG54GS wireless router you can borrow if you
want to do some testing - or even try out for a month or two.

I can't make it to the next meeting, but subsequent ones should no longer be
a problem,  I am playing around with Ubunto and trying to boot various
distros off my USB pen drives. Quite like the idea of have a keyring of
distros to boot from, depending how my I'm feeling. I'm finding that my
moods are dictating which distro I play around with, I need a holiday!

Mark



On 02/08/07, Cliff Deamer <cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> I need a little help!
> I use a network of 3 PC's which on a normal day would be sharing
> broadband access via a Netgear 834GT wireless router. My contract with
> BT is for a 2MB/s service.
> One PC is wired the other two are wireless.
> Normally everything is switched off overnight and is fired up typically
> around 0700 each day.
> Over the past few months the delay between switch on and getting
> connected has been increasing, starting as a few seconds it is currently
> more than 30 minutes.
> When it does connect,after a short time it may then disconnect, taking
> perhaps an hour or more before it reconnects.
> I have had a BT "engineer" check the line, he tells me it is good for
> 3.5 MB/s.
> I have spent ages on the 'phone to Netgear trying their suggestions and
> they assure me that the router is good. I upgraded the router firmware
> to the latest version.
> I have tried operating with just the one PC plugged into the router and
> get the same result. I have also tried a single wireless connection from
> a different PC with the same result
> The problem is exactly the same if I use Windows XP or my usual o/s,
> Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty)
> My last resort is to go and buy another wireless router but before I
> spend my hard earned, does anyone have any other suggestions?
> All contributions gratefully received!
> Cliff
>
>
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