[PLUG] Preferred Routers, was Router Problem

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Wed Jan 30 16:06:00 UTC 2008


drew wymore wrote:

>>>> On Jan 29, 2008 8:23 PM, <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> Comcast had an outage in my area this afternoon. When service was
>>>>> restored, I could not connect to the Internet through my router;

> Glad its working again. May have been a timing thing or it could just be
> buggy firmware on the router. I had troubles with Netgear routers losing
> their DHCP lease from the cable modem and no matter how much I powercycled
> it, it wouldn't renew the lease. That said, I've had trouble with Linksys as
> well so its not a vendor specific problem.

I've had cable Internet service since TCI introduced it in the Oregon
City area -- 1995? -- and have had the router almost as long. One of the
things this experience has uncovered is that the router only supports
10M/half duplex on the WAN side. It may be that the cable modem I
started with only ran at 10M/half duplex, but I know that the new one
that was installed a couple of weeks ago supports 100M/Full duplex.

Today's question: Would I really notice the difference if I got a new
router that supports 100M/Full duplex on the WAN side as well as the LAN
side?

And, which routers do you folks prefer? I'll consider adding wireless
capability, too.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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