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breakerfall · 06-08-2008, 15:17

Hi,

I'm losing my connection quite regularly. I'm having to renew the IP every morning when I wake up and several times throughout each day. This only started happening within the past week or two. I have an old STB cable modem, which replaced an even older C&W STB.

I don't seem to be able to access it on the address I've seen people post here (to check the frequencies), unless I should be attempting to access it via TFTP, which I haven't tried yet.

My setup: STB hooked up to an old Linksys BEFSR 11 router. Logging in to my router control panel, I can see that the DHCP lease has expired, so I have to renew it. It doesn't seem to be auto-renewing like it used to and for some reason, the lease time I'm given is fairly short. I think I'm going to have to try and monitor the STB at the time the connection drops, only, it's a PITA because there are 2 flights of stairs between the router and the STB.

If I remember correctly, the lease time used to be around 3 days, where now it starts out at an hour. Renews automagically, lasts a few more hours, then dies and I have to restart the whole process again manually.

Has anybody heard any reports of similar behaviour, or have any ideas for diagnosing this problem (I've tried the usual modem & router reboot)?

Thanks!

06-08-2008, 15:17	#1
breakerfall Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 8	Losing my connection every so often... Hi, I'm losing my connection quite regularly. I'm having to renew the IP every morning when I wake up and several times throughout each day. This only started happening within the past week or two. I have an old STB cable modem, which replaced an even older C&W STB. I don't seem to be able to access it on the address I've seen people post here (to check the frequencies), unless I should be attempting to access it via TFTP, which I haven't tried yet. My setup: STB hooked up to an old Linksys BEFSR 11 router. Logging in to my router control panel, I can see that the DHCP lease has expired, so I have to renew it. It doesn't seem to be auto-renewing like it used to and for some reason, the lease time I'm given is fairly short. I think I'm going to have to try and monitor the STB at the time the connection drops, only, it's a PITA because there are 2 flights of stairs between the router and the STB. If I remember correctly, the lease time used to be around 3 days, where now it starts out at an hour. Renews automagically, lasts a few more hours, then dies and I have to restart the whole process again manually. Has anybody heard any reports of similar behaviour, or have any ideas for diagnosing this problem (I've tried the usual modem & router reboot)? Thanks!