[Cialug] Mediacom Connection

[Nathan C. Smith]

I had a co-worker that was having issues like this one time.  We traced it back to a bad connection in her cable line - she had a splitter installed which seems to be a no-no with cable modems.  Any chance of a splitter, bad connection, old cable or moisture in the cable?

I wonder how long the DHCP leases are that the router gives out?  Does this issue occur when the leases are up?  Is there any chance the Buffalo router is resetting itself?  Can you check the uptime on it?  Maybe the buffalo router should spoof the MAC address of your Windows XP machine?

I'm envious of your Mediacomm speed, but you can pick about any local DSL vendor and get better customer service, higher reliability and a lower total problem quotient.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:39 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom Connection
> 
> Jim Asbille wrote:
> > I am having a problem that I am baffled by.  I have two 
> computers that
> > are connected by wire to a Buffalo router that also has 
> wireless.  The
> > machines are Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenSuse.  Over the last week they keep
> > losing their connection to the internet.  I have to disconnect the
> > modem and router and then reconnect them to reestablish my 
> connection
> > to the internet.  This morning I can't get either one to reconnect.
> >
> > On a whim I fired up my work laptop which has Windows XP and uses
> > wireless.  It connected no problem.  What gives?  Anybody have any
> > ideas what could be happening?
> >
> >   
> Have you checked to see if there's a firmware update for your 
> router? A 
> lot of Buffalo routers will run dd-wrt, which may be more robust than 
> the factory firmware.
> 
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html
> 
> -dc
> 
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