Re: OT: Strange connectivity problem

On 19 Feb 2006 04:13:00 -0800, "Lode" <lodewijk@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Badger_s wrote:
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Never had that problem before but I use cable, not DSL. Maybe you were
assigned a new IP by your ISP and your modem wasn't updating but
caching the old one? On reconnect, it would then request a new IP
address and everyhting would work again. The 45 seconds would then
probably be the treshold required for the modem to request a new IP
instead of re-using the old one. Just my 0.0175? (about 0.02$).

Thanks, man. I suspect you're right-on with this, though my IP is static,
AFAIK and it hasn't changed. Something is not updating, apparently within
the modem. What kind of speeds do you get with cable modem? I have a
typical 50kBps account. I'm thinking of switching, thing is, you never know
off-hand if the new account has good support for Usenet. Be just my luck to
switch and then find out they had no Usenet support and I ended up having
to use a pay service for that, lol. I'm thinking it might actually be
better to switch over, cancel that extra phone line, and get a package for
the TV and the 'Net, depending on the above, of course.

About the virus scanner, I use AVG - a freeware scanner. Always had
loads of trouble with Norton, it kept hoggin down more and more system
resources. Switched to AVG two years back, never had a problem. It
intercepted a virus on only two occasions cause safe computing is also
my friend.

Yeah, I have AVG and Norton and some other stuff. Once in a great while
I'll load it up and scan, after updating the defos, but never have found
anything. I think people are more into exploits these days and that's
browser-based, or problems for people using Outlook and stuff. Just a
guess.

-B

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