nikmagid
join:2001-04-19
Los Angeles, CA
 ·EarthLink
| [Line Problem] my internet connection keeps dropping
for the past couple of days, my internet connection drops once or twice a day. resetting my modem and router seems to help. is there any way i can stop this from happening? i have a zyxel p-6600-r modem in bridge mode with a netgear wgr614v6 wireless router. |
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nikmagid
join:2001-04-19
Los Angeles, CA | what happens is that the ethernet light on my modem goes out and my wireless router freezes up. is it time to get a new router? |
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| Remove the Router temporarily and use only the ZyXEL Router/Modem setup to handle the connection. It will need to be reset and then configured for PPPoE.
»EarthLink DSL FAQ »Zyxel Modem - How to Identify the Correct Model Number
»EarthLink DSL FAQ » Zyxel 600 Series - Router Configuration (P-660R Units)
Do you still have the problem? If no, then that means it is your »Netgear Router that needs help and any questions about it would need to be asked in the »Netgear Forum as that is the hardware support forum that knows about »Netgear products.
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nikmagid
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Los Angeles, CA | i will have to check it tomorrow when i am home. dould it be adns issue? i saw a lot of people in california were having that issue. i changed my dns servers to the ones listed in the forum, and it seems to be working fine now. |
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| said by nikmagid  :i will have to check it tomorrow when i am home. dould it be adns issue? i saw a lot of people in california were having that issue. i changed my dns servers to the ones listed in the forum, and it seems to be working fine now. DNS does not make any LEDs go out, so no, changing the DNS would not fix the Ethernet LED going dark. It won't hurt anything and you may notice faster lookups, but it has no effect on the status of the LEDs on the Modem or the Router.
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nikmagid
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Los Angeles, CA | this only seems to happen at night. it has been very cold and rainy here. could that affect my router? |
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| Routers work in Alaska with no problems, so I doubt you are having temperature or moisture issues unless the Router is exposed outside in the elements. 
Now age of the device and repeated on/off cycles do place strain on all electrical devices, solder joints, ports etc., connections can become brittle, or crack under stain then go open making the LED go out along with the connection.
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nikmagid
join:2001-04-19
Los Angeles, CA
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| the modem is brand new but the router is about 3 tp 4 years old. all i know is that as soons as i put in the newdns servers last night and power cyled my modem , router and computer, everything was fine. it went from going out out every 10 minutes to working for 2 hours until i went to bed. |
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| said by nikmagid :what happens is that the ethernet light on my modem goes out and my wireless router freezes up. When the Ethernet LED goes out, that means that the physical connection is no longer being sensed at the low level. It is the same as unplugging the cable.
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nikmagid
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Los Angeles, CA | so do you think it is a good time to replace the router? |
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| said by nikmagid :so do you think it is a good time to replace the router? It could be a bad connector or bent pins on the WAN Port or a bad Ethernet cable or a loose socket or even a conflicting setting such as MAC Cloning being enabled/setup that is not needed or used with Earthlink DSL and could possibly make a problem. It may just need a reset and a Firmware update.
So any questions about your Router would really need to be asked in the Netgear Forum as that is the hardware support forum that knows about Netgear products.
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nikmagid
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Los Angeles, CA | i think i am just going to get a new one. some of the newer routers are pretty nice looking. i can pick up one cheap online or at circuit city's liquidation sales. |
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| You better double check, Circuit City isn't liquidating anything. They have already been bought out by a Liquidator that went in and every price was raised, then they take the so called discount off the higher than normal price making you think you are getting a bargain when it really isn't.
Hey Circuit City, Where are all the Bargains?
Circuit City Sale Reality Check
»www.pcworld.com/article/158231/h···ins.html
"Sales staff reminded us that all sales were final"
Circuit City Liquidation Sale Price Switch-Can You Beat It or Will It Beat You?
»hdguru.com/how-to-beat-circuit-c···ing/314/
"Circuit City’s posted “current” price in a “closeout” store is not the same as Circuit City really charges (at its own website) for the same product. It is tagged significantly higher with five out of five TVs surveyed!"
Plus, I'd really hate to hear you bought a new Router and it did not fix your problem because you didn't take the time to diagnose the issue and you find out later that it ended up to be a bad Ethernet cable, or something like a misconfiguration addition or omission carried over to the new Router.
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nikmagid
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Los Angeles, CA | why would it start to do this right now? it has been fine for the past months. |
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| said by nikmagid :why would it start to do this right now? it has been fine for the past months. Do you mean why do things stop working/go bad?
Why do car batteries fail? Why do light bulbs in the house burn out? Why do headlights on a car burn out?
They just do. Anything man-made is not going to work forever.
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