[dmarook]

Hello

I wonder if someone could help me solve an annoying problem I am having with my router.

I am currently on NTL 10Mbps connection. I have been using a Belkin High-Speed Mode Wireless G Router (F5D7231-4) for home networking. I have had no problem with the router when I was on 3Mbps and never had a single router crash. Since going up on to 10Mbps, I am having a certain problem frequently. If I start downloading a file from the net using a download manager like Flashget (file broken in to 8 simultaneous downloads) the download starts at full speed than after about 5 to 8 seconds the connection just freezes. Now, this happens on http connection. I am unable to browse the internet at this time. However, I can use the NTL newsgroups via a news reader while the http connection is frozen. Also, if I change the proxy in my web browser to a different NTL proxy (normally I leave it blank), I can carry on browsing without resetting my router.

I am inclined to think that this is a router problem as the problem is fixed if you do a hard or soft reset of the router. I have so far never had to reset my cable modem to fix this problem. Belkin technical support has been very unhelpful so far. And my firmware is up to date.

The odd thing is the router is quite happy to download at full speed from the newsgroups (I often get constant speeds of 1100KB/s) but not happy with the web and http. Also, it does not like file sharing progs like torrent, mule etc which needs a lot of simultaneous connections to work effectively.

So, is it something to do with the router? Or am I beating about the wrong bush? Thanks in advance for any help.

DMarook