[MartinD]

I have had a read through all these posts and am getting more concearned.

For the past week or two I have been having huge problems with sustaining connections to ntl. I had an old 4 port belkin, can't remember exact model, but basicaly this was crashing out and I couldn't even ping the router. So suspecting the router was having issues I went and got a new router, a belkin F5D5231-4.

It connects fine and I seem to get a decent speed when it runs, however when I do anything which requires sustained connections (eg streaming media, teamspeak, online games etc) I get disconnected after a variable, but short amount of time. (10-15 minutes). I can reconnect agains traight away and when I check the belkin logs I see

2006/04/02 23:57:48 DHCP Client : Send Discover
2006/04/02 23:57:50 DHCP Client : Send Request, Request IP = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
2006/04/02 23:57:51 DHCP Client : Receive Ack, IP = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, Lease time = 136891

(note: I x'd out the ips myself)

I see an entry for this everytime it disconnects. The modem seems fine and I dont think that is actualy droping the external connection, and the internet connection seems ok when directly connected to a pc, however this hasn't been thoroughly tested. Certainly things like the signal levels on the modem appear fine.

With the new modem in, I am constantly able to ping the internal interface and this doesn't drop like the original router,

One interesting thing I saw around the time that this started was an entry on the ntl network status page saying they were doing planed maintenance on various exchanges including the one which I connect to complete "Network optimisation"

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated