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Date:	Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:33:48 PST8
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Question about using Router / Access Point

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I, too, am on Adelphia with a Motorola cable modem (SB5101).
It feeds an older SMC Barricade router.

I power down the router & cable modem regularly and must re-acquire
an IP and the router must re-acqure the cable modem. My WAP is a wimpy,
old, brain-damaged (802.11b) Belkin, and separate from the router.

I find that the cable modem will re-acquire an IP (via DHCP)
faster if it is not being kept busy with traffic from the router.
Sometimes it can take several minutes to get a new (renew a) lease,
if I'm impatiently hammering away at the router for data from my browser.

Adelphia will not spend any of their support time helping you out
with your router. They have been adamant about that and I sorta understand.

Their best suggestion was to hard re-boot the cable modem (power down)
and try again.

-- Steve

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On 4/24/06, Colin Campbell wrote, in part:
>I have high speed internet service thru my TV cable provider, Adelphia.
>
>I use the cable modem suggested by Adelphia (Motorola SB4200 Surfboard
>Cable Modem). After I won a Linksys WRT54G wireless router at a SCOUG
>meeting, I began using the router to enable me to use both of my PCs to
>access the Internet. Sometimes, I do so simultaneously, since they sit
>side by side. A few weeks ago, I bought a Linksys Wireless Access Point
>(WAP54G), and found I could connect the two PCs using the Router to send
>a signal to the AP.
>
>Since then, I have noticed times when I lose Internet access, (usually,
>maybe always, I'm not sure) on both PCs at once. It happened yesterday,
>when my wife and daughter wanted to do some on line shopping, and my
>wife called Adelphia. One of the questions she was asked was whether
>there was a Router involved, She said yes, and was told to try a
>connection without the Router. We did so, and things worked.
>
>Today, I wanted to use both PCs at once, the older to do e-mail, and the
>newer to try to get everything I needed to make TiMidity work. At the
>start, I had connectivity on both PCs, but later lost my connection. I
>tried unplugging the cable modem, waiting a minute or so, and
>reconnecting the power plug. The lights there indicated a good
>connection. Still, I couldn't do anything. So, I unplugged the Router,
>waited a bit, and plugged it back in. Then, things worked again.
>However, after awhile, I lost the connection again.
>
>The Router is plugged in to my power strip, so it is powered off when I
>shut down the PCs for the night. The Access Point, because I've run out
>of plugs on the power strip, has been plugged in continuously. Right
>now, though, I'm not using the Access Point, so I unplugged it.
>
>Is anyone else having problems with a Router?
>
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