the problem is buggy firmware with routers and modems and stbs. if you are using P2P like bittorrent to download movies etc, then with 4 or 5 torrents going, you are maxxing out you download connection. the router,stb,modem needs a little download overhead to do its housekeeping duties, but with maxxed out downloads it can't do this so it drops a connection and when you try to repair you get a "failed to renew IP address". for me anyway i have to reboot modem and router, but this is a major PITA coz i have to renew the download of the torrent files. it was suggested that new firmware for my router might solve the problem but guess what, downloaded new netgear firmware and i still get the same probs. even if you try to throttle back the download to say 90% of total i still get the connection dropping. suppose i will just have to download 1 torrent at a time
hope this helps ya
cheers
big sinky
ps can anyone from the cable forum team let me know if there is a firmware update for the ntl home 120 cable modem and if so where can i get it.