I have been having a DSL issue for about a year now. My ISP doesn't think they are at fault but I think are full of it.
Basically my DSL modem will at random drop my connection. It says the DSL i up, but my connection is down. Judging from the lights on the modem, I think its trying to re-authenticate my user and just gets stuck in an infinite loop. I have to unplug the modem, and them 'sometimes' it will reconnect. Other times I just leave it overnight, and it works in the morning.
When it does this I cannot ping, or do any name resolution.
Something stranger happened this afternoon. I refreshed my server list while Playing a Steam game, and like usual, it dropped my internet connection (I have read about this in this forum and that is not my immediate issue before anyone comments on that). The only difference today was I was already connected to a game, and it still ran without any issues. I ALT-TAB'ed out of the game and tried to hit the web, no luck. Went back, still had 30 ping with the game server I was connected to.
How is that even possible. When I tried to browse to the IP of my modem, the webpage just set there, like the modem is overheating and freaking out or something. This time around, I let it sit with no activity for about 5 minutes, and all of a sudden I was back again.
Does anyone else experience this with their DSL. I had Cable internet for two years previous to this crap DSL, and never had 'this' kind of an issue.
Thanks
Basically my DSL modem will at random drop my connection. It says the DSL i up, but my connection is down. Judging from the lights on the modem, I think its trying to re-authenticate my user and just gets stuck in an infinite loop. I have to unplug the modem, and them 'sometimes' it will reconnect. Other times I just leave it overnight, and it works in the morning.
When it does this I cannot ping, or do any name resolution.
Something stranger happened this afternoon. I refreshed my server list while Playing a Steam game, and like usual, it dropped my internet connection (I have read about this in this forum and that is not my immediate issue before anyone comments on that). The only difference today was I was already connected to a game, and it still ran without any issues. I ALT-TAB'ed out of the game and tried to hit the web, no luck. Went back, still had 30 ping with the game server I was connected to.
How is that even possible. When I tried to browse to the IP of my modem, the webpage just set there, like the modem is overheating and freaking out or something. This time around, I let it sit with no activity for about 5 minutes, and all of a sudden I was back again.
Does anyone else experience this with their DSL. I had Cable internet for two years previous to this crap DSL, and never had 'this' kind of an issue.
Thanks
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