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Question about Roger@home Cable internet

well actually, i think they do have restrictions on your nic.... what's known as your MAC address or Physical Address (directly linked to your nic) determines what phub/hub u connect to...... i have a dlink (purchased sep) and a aopen (provided by rogers).... although both work, each one gives me totally different ips because i connect to totally different phubs/hubs.... currently i'm using the dlink (my own) nic and no probs... maybe it depends on what kinda modem u have.....

as for your disconnect problem, does your ip seem to be changing after each disconnect? have u noticed any other connections issues (speed, latency, etc.)? are u sure there's no work going on in your area?

hope i added some insite...

reply to shinichi2000
Call up Rogers and ask them to reset the mac address for your account, tell them that the NIC that they provided blew up, and you bought another one you want to use. They might ask for the new card's mac address, so do an IPCONFIG /ALL in a CMD window to show its mac address.
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reply to shinichi2000
When you switch the nics, did you make sure to release the ip from the soho, and renew on the dlink? That's how I switch, you cant switch by just plugging it out and in.

reply to shinichi2000
you might wanna reset your modem as well

i have to reset my modem every time i use a different nic

reply to shinichi2000
btw forget the @home part ... that's long gone.

It's now all Rogers ... Rogers HiSpeed Internet ... and no part is owned by @home!

Just so you know.

reply to shinichi2000
if you're using a terayon terapro, they take a little while to forget the MAC address. if you're plugged into one ethernet card and the service is working fine, you should power off the modem for 5 minutes or so, then power back up and use the new ethernet card.

worked for me when i switched from my computer to my housemate's before i had the router setup.

reply to shinichi2000
First of all theres no reason to change to the dlink card, but if you really wanna, make sure you release the IP, change,then renew the IP on the second card. It just wont work otherwise...unless you have a lancity modem, but thats another story. Also you may have to unplug/replug the modem if it doesnt work right away.

As for the 7 hour dying connection, that seems strange, but it couldn't hurt to download the latest NIC drivers and replace them. (update driver in device manager). Also you may want to remove the unused NIC, or disable it... check any router your using, replace the both NICs with 1 new one if all else fails and see if that does the trick.

When you say "I'm always disconnected from rogers" do you mean your modem goes offline or that you just cant surf or use the connection? After the connection has died, do a ipconfig and see if your computer still has an IP. If you have a terayon modem, call tech support and have them watch your dhcp process in the SMC DHCP tool.

hope something in there helps ya out

dc.

reply to shinichi2000
yo datac

I formatted the other day, I didnt release IP before I formated but did AFTER I formated and renewed the ip....

Is this bad? My friend green was telling me , that my connection will stop working after a few days.
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said by shinichi2000:

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Recently, Im always disconnected from Rogers after being online for a while, about 7 or more hours. I cant ping any hosts or servers, nor websites. Once this happened, I have to turn my PC off, wait for a few mins, then turn it back on, and it's ok again. I emailed to ask them, and they said my connection is ok, and they asked me to check my driver (Im using XP Pro).

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reply to shinichi2000
Mau I didn't say you will loose it, I said you might experience problems, because I did. when I formatted once, I didn't release my ip before I formatted, then after it worked, after a day I started getting disconnected, turns out it was a problem with the mac address, or something, so whenever I decide to format, I always release my ip before I format.
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said by green1074:

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Mau I didn't say you will loose it, I said you might experience problems, because I did. when I formatted once, I didn't release my ip before I formatted, then after it worked, after a day I started getting disconnected, turns out it was a problem with the mac address, or something, so whenever I decide to format, I always release my ip before I format.

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reply to shinichi2000
hmmm, I wouldn't say nothing if it didn't happen, because it did aite. Why would I say it to you mau, if I did not have some sort of experience with it, it's not totally dumb. I said it might, I didnt say it would.
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reply to shinichi2000
I'll take your word for it little buddy....

If it does give me problems ill reformat

No Biggie

[text was edited by author 2002-06-09 10:44:03]

reply to mau108
No, thats incorrect what your friend said.

The IP addressing in DHCP is based on the NIC's MAC address, as long as its the same NIC, your fine.

dc.

reply to lexsteele
If all else fails, try this command to flush your tcp/ip stack and reset to original settings:

at the command prompt:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

use with caution, as it makes significant changes to your registry settings, taking them back to a default state.

see
»support.microsoft.com/default.as···;q299357

for more details.

dc.

reply to shinichi2000
I wonder, what did happen to my connection, if it wasn't because of formatting....*goes off into thinking world**. Can someone please help me figure that out, anyways i better go finish my project.