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| reply to Golgamesh
Re: Alice (France) reboots my router every eveningWhen you say modem reboots what you mean? Is this a matter of losing Internet connection because ISP assigns a different IP address or is something else occurring?
Under normal circumstances residential accounts are configured dynamically. This should be invisible. Assuming ISP is using DHCP to configure modem/router midway through lease your modem/router will request a renewal. This should be transparent with same one being assigned. However it is possible ISP is issuing a different one each time. Why they would be doing that for "security" reason is bogus.
Access modem/router status information pages. Should see one that shows information about ISP connection, may be called WAN - wide area network.
Should see current IP configuration info and DHCP lease. Should look something like this:
Lease Obtained : Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:06:52 AM
Lease Expires : Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:06:52 AM
This came from Windows XP Ipconfig /all command but entry in router should have similar information. If you are not sure post data here. Make note of current IP address and when lease is set to expire. There may also be log file. That may have information about problem.
When problem occurs go back into router and see what happened. Is the IP address different?
If ISP is deliberately changing IP address then booting router so next change happens when you are not using it will hide the issue. Since your friends have not run into this issue (I assume they use same ISP)it is unlikely your ISP is doing this deliberately.
As Rob  posted there may be something wrong with router. Before replacing may want to reset and reconfigure connection. Remember doing so will lose anything you configured such as WiFi SSID and password so you will need to reconfigure it.
Let us know how things turn out.
/tom |
