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hello, i have ubunto 10.10 running on an old dell xps system.
when i set it up i had internet through my home wifi router on my cable modem.
now the dell is at another home with an ADSL wifi router from verizon.
we have entered the ssid and wep key as given from the adsl router.
the other windows…
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I have a wireless lan running on my ASDL2 connection. The router (Seimens Gigaset sx763) is provided by the ISP and is generally good. However I have couple of dead spots at the far end of the house and since I have my old router sitting in the drawer I thought that I'd try to convert it into simple…
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I want to configure the ADSL router which connects 10+ machines to the internet. I want to give maximum priority to browsing (ports 80,443) and set low priority for bittorrent etc.(port 42180)
I have been experimenting with settings , but with no luck. There are three settings which confuse me, along…
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I have one adsl modem/router which is not "top" of the line and it lack allot of options which I need. I was able to acquire one Cisco router recently which has all options that I need ( like DMZ, VPN, port forwarding, etc). I'm interested, if I connect the old modem/router to new Cisco router using…
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I have ADSL2 Modem which I got from my service provider, now I want to setup wireless(Wi-Fi) in my home. I went to shop, where I came to know that there are routers which come up with modem also but they are priced lil higher than the only wi-fi routers. Now it is obvious that I should go for only…
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I have a Linksys BEFCMU10 cablemodem and a WRT54GL router with Tomato 1.27 firmware on Cox cable. My question is this: I get what seems to be random disconnects from the internet, where the cable modem lights are still normal, but I can connect nowhere, either via a url or an ip address. At the same…
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I may be crazy here, but I seem to recall a conversation in the past stating that it was possible to offload some of the operations taken by one's cable modem to one's router.
The logic was that since the cable modem is often equipped with a cheaper processor as it is supplied by your provider, that…
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Yesterday (Friday, September 21, 2012), my Internet connection started acting up. After some testing, I confirmed a very specific and baffling set of symptoms:
Internet connection goes away every 25-35 minutes (I did not confirm the exact interval, but it seems to be about 30 mins.)
Only some protocols…
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I'm taking over IT responsibilities for a previous IT guy.
We have a 50mb cable modem connection from Comcast along with 5 static IP addresses:
XXX.XXX.XXX.180
XXX.XXX.XXX.181
XXX.XXX.XXX.182
XXX.XXX.XXX.183
XXX.XXX.XXX.184
We are in the process of replacing our firewall machine. Currently the…
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A little off the wall perhaps, but ...
I have a cable modem and a router for a wireless home network. Is it a good or a bad idea to turn it off at night and during the day when we're all at work or school? Or should I leave it on 24/7.
I was thinking that leaving it on constantly makes me more vulnerable…
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