Buffalo router

10 Feb 2005 10:58 PM

Stuart Geoghegan

I have a wireless network set up at home. My connection strength is always
excellent. Every so often, the broadband connection is lost and then
reconnects, but the connection between my wireless card and router never
goes down. What might be causing this and how can I fix it!!

It gets really annoying when downloading large files because I need to start
again.

Cheers in advance

Stuoobs

11 Feb 2005 12:08 AM

Neill Massello

Stuart Geoghegan <stuart.geoghe***@virgin.net> wrote:

> I have a wireless network set up at home. My connection strength is always
> excellent. Every so often, the broadband connection is lost and then
> reconnects, but the connection between my wireless card and router never
> goes down. What might be causing this and how can I fix it!!
>
> It gets really annoying when downloading large files because I need to start
> again.

Check the Intrusion Detector page to see if you're getting flood attacks
and check the log page to see if any sore thumbs -- like frequent DHCP
lease renewals -- stick out.

You might also want to block pings (in the WAN settings) if you haven't
already done so.

12 Feb 2005 9:20 AM

Derek P

If this is happening during big downloads, it might be your ISP. I've
noticed my ISP tends to drop my IP address at the weirdest times (middle of
the night) while i've got a lot of downloads queued up and decent speeds. A
simple release/renew fixes the problem, but i'm almost wondering if they are
trying to reduce bandwidth usage by causing downloads to abort.

It never happens unless i'm downloading a lot! Unless this is some sort of
buffer underrun error with my modem.

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"Stuart Geoghegan" <stuart.geoghe***@virgin.net> wrote in message
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>I have a wireless network set up at home. My connection strength is always
>excellent. Every so often, the broadband connection is lost and then
>reconnects, but the connection between my wireless card and router never
>goes down. What might be causing this and how can I fix it!!
>
> It gets really annoying when downloading large files because I need to
> start again.
>
> Cheers in advance
>
> Stuoobs
>