I use a cable modem and a Linksys router: lately the router has been dropping the connection .?

Question

This forces me to reboot both router and cable modem. The reliable ISP - small, local, says it is the router. The router settings all look normal to me.

Answer 1

possibles:

ISP
modem
router

I assume your modem is in bridge mode and the router is doing the actual connecting, right?

last i checked, Linksys routers used to keep a log of their connect activities. open your LinkSys control panel and either examine this or set it to send it to a file on your computer. if this shows relogging on, maybe you get lucky and it tells you why it was dropped -- like timeout error or something.

if so, that still leaves the possibility that any one of the three has become unreliable. Can you borrow a router form someone to try and replace the Linksys temporarily?

I have had a router die on me. Just went out and bought a new one at Best Buy. I suppose same could happen to a cable modem.

and there is a real possibility that the cable company is the cause -- they sold more customers and the response time is falling, so you get timeout error. increasing the timeout spec [if possible] might fix temporarily.

{you do know that, in essence, cable operates one big network for an area and that more customers means slower responses, yes?}


GL

Answer 2

Are you using any P2P file sharing programs like eMule, BitTorrent client, etc.? They could cause problem because they are connecting a lot of other computers at the same time.

If you are, try to reduce the concurrent connection numbers allowed in the program default setting.