PC/Router Question

[dpatterson1976]

Its your cable modem.

While they will tell you its working it could have a dirty connection back to the Providers equipment. Over time your router will have enough of it and hose up. This is why a reboot works.

I deal with this on a daily basis...

[blacksunshine]

possibly...would work better as a standalone off the main router...it's mac address along with the laptop could be causing issues...

you could down the modem, down the router, down the airport card, desktop and laptop, turn on the modem, then the router, then desktop, then the rest should not matter if it is a mac address scenario....

[Marion]

It does sound like a DNS issue but if you haven't done it yet I would check and make sure you have the latest firmware version on your router. I've fixed lots of goofy problems like that that just start happening with firmware.

[gatt40]

Have had sme problem and reboot usually works except last night I had to go thru a restore w/ my laptop. Not sure the problem was w/ the router or laptop.

[Shane]

I just bought the same router, and yesterday it would continually drop connections and reconnect. Today it's working just fine. I don't know what was going on yesterday or what happened to fix it.

[blacksunshine]

It does sound like a DNS issue but if you haven't done it yet I would check and make sure you have the latest firmware version on your router. I've fixed lots of goofy problems like that that just start happening with firmware.

just make sure you back up the current firmware if you can before you update it....sometimes the new firmware causes more problems than what you had....

[blacksunshine]

well? did ya kill it yet?

[Matt_C]

While you are in the router, try changing your MTU size to 1492.

[blacksunshine]

you could always just get a junk sff desktop and run m0n0wall on it...or get real geeky and find yourself a Neoware CA10 with a riser, install m0n0wall on it, slap in another nic and bam, bulletproof network appliance...uses a disk on chip or a compact flash depending on the model...much easier to work with.... I even had an idiot proof usb flash drive image that a blind man can install from...works like a champ...had one running in front of my servers for 6 years now....

[Davoh]

The fact that TBH works while nothing else, because you have it in your /etc/hosts file, confirms that its DNS. Not to beat my own chest, but this is exactly what I do for a living, webserver technical support.

Sounds Like a resolver problem with your ISP.

When you have the problem, before you reboot the router, open a command line and run an nslookup for a particular domain you're having trouble viewing.

Example: nslookup google.com

If it doesnt give you a result try using a public resolver in the network settings on your local workstation, change them to public resolving nameservers such as:

4.2.2.2
(google public resolvers, and you can find more, but this is the one I use most of the time)
Someone else had recommended(several times in a single post I might add), doing this. From what you mentioned here, I believe they may be right.

If nslookup gives you an error, google it and you can usually find what it means.

[blacksunshine]

The fact that TBH works while nothing else, because you have it in your /etc/hosts file, confirms that its DNS. Not to beat my own chest, but this is exactly what I do for a living, webserver technical support.

Sounds Like a resolver problem with your ISP.

When you have the problem, before you reboot the router, open a command line and run an nslookup for a particular domain you're having trouble viewing.

Example: nslookup google.com

If it doesnt give you a result try using a public resolver in the network settings on your local workstation, change them to public resolving nameservers such as:

4.2.2.2
(google public resolvers, and you can find more, but this is the one I use most of the time)
Someone else had recommended(several times in a single post I might add), doing this. From what you mentioned here, I believe they may be right.

If nslookup gives you an error, google it and you can usually find what it means.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

[TimH]

Sounds like bad DNS records.
Is your laptop using DHCP?

[Chew]

you could always just get a junk sff desktop and run m0n0wall on it...or get real geeky and find yourself a Neoware CA10 with a riser, install m0n0wall on it, slap in another nic and bam, bulletproof network appliance...uses a disk on chip or a compact flash depending on the model...much easier to work with.... I even had an idiot proof usb flash drive image that a blind man can install from...works like a champ...had one running in front of my servers for 6 years now....

Does your mother know you talk like that?

[blacksunshine]

Does your mother know you talk like that?

yeah, but she never understood what the heck I was talking about...lol

[tx07]

I'm having hell keeping my connection to the internet through my Cisco router. It will drop occasionally. Rebooting the router will get me right back up every time. The one odd thing is that TBH never gets disconnected. When every other website won't open, TBH will. I checked my hosts file and I have an entry in there for TBH, so I'm guessing that's the reason. That also may be a clue as to what is going on with my connection and router.


Any ideas before I buy a new router?

Thanks in advance.

Spyware on your machine and stupid click scripts on some ads imbedded to web pages.
But maybe it could be the modem acting up instead of the router too. Your ISP should give you a new one free of charge. Comcast does, I have replaced mine 3 times in the past 7 or 8 years free of charge. Same issue as your having, random disconnects. Resetting works, but it will happen again.