djuk

Morning everyone,

I have a belkin 4-port cable router which connects our 4 computers to the internet via an NTL cable modem. Now the router is in fairly constant use, from 3 of the computers for 6 hours most evenings and one computer is online as a mail server all the time. Now every 4 or 5 days the router decides to die, network connectivity disappears as does the route to the internet and it needs the power pulling out of and starting again to get things moving again. Now is this a common thing with routers, due to the fairly constant traffic which goes through it or is my belkin router just pants and another router model might be more stable?

Cheers

David

dsmith

The latter.

djuk

thought so

IanW

I think Mr.Cookie has some issues with his router, changed it for another one and all worked great again!

hedgehog

I have a Draytek ADSL router and have found it very stable indeed. Occasionally the line drops out and I believe most of this is down to the BT network. However, the router always picks it back up again as soon as the service comes back. I've only had to "reboot" it once and I've had ADSL since the week it became available on my exchange so I'd guess the router has been there for the best part of 3 years.

lightning101

I've got the belkin wireless cable router and every couple days drops the cable modem and have to reset everything.

djuk

Looks like im going to chuck in the belkin then!

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

my 3com router is yet to drop a packet

djuk

Just thinking about things.... as you do at work on a saturday and the only machine which actually matters is the mail server, for the time being... is there any way to give it a direct route to the cable modem but also allow the rest of the machines to use the router... like this! It may be way off the mark and impossible made up theory but i try!

Currently like this:



Will this work?:



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Edited because we now know that diagram is silly

[Edited by djuk - 1/10/2004 8:36:49 PM]

IanW

Diagram B wont work.

If you wanted to connect the mail server directly to the Cable Modem that would work, then installed a second network card into the mail server machine and if running windows enable Internet Conenction Sharing.

This way teh router is then removed from the loop, and teh other machines all have network/web access.

Mr.Cookie

Ian is quite right, went over to a linksys router much better

Have you updated the router firmware.

Si

djuk

Ok thought my networking theory may be way off but just wanted it confirming

Mr.Cookie which linksys router do you have - has it solved the problem completely?

Mr.Cookie

DJ

Reason i changed wasn't quite the same reason as you, although i had to reboot router occasionally i changed because my belkin router had no ftp http port forwarding, anyway now run a Linksys BEFW11S4 and all is very sweet

Si