random disconnects with DSL, only after a reboot can i connect again?

loosbrew · Post by **loosbrew** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 2:15 pm

i put this in the cable/dsl forums, but havent gotten a response all morening or afternoon so maybe i can get some more "sirtime" here

hey all,
well for the past 2.4 years ive had @home cable ad have been super happy with it, but that time has come when we had to move and now we are stuck with verizon dsl in Mass. the speed isnt bad, i get what i pay for 768/128, but i get random disconnects then i cant reconnect. the weird thing is that the connection icon in the sys tray doesnt show as disconnected. but i cant get to any web pages or anywhere. i try to disconnect the connection and retry to connect but it just hangs on "trying to connect with device" .
im using win2k pro sp2
at first i had XP rtm and the winpoet SW wouldnt even detect my nic, but i just read a fix for that so i might put XP back on there.

any thoughts on why i cant reconnect after i lose connectivity?

thanks
loosbrew

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 2:31 pm

Maybe try this? It worked for me:

Stalls and freezes Slow downs
Are caused by DHCP time in Windohs esp in win98 & SE/ME
This will or can happen in Win2k also
Do this
Open control panel

Open Network

Look for the first entry in the scroll box marked TCP/IP, that is associated with a hardware ethernet card (ignore dialup, AOL and VPN type bindings).

Select it and press properties

Select IP address from the tab

Is Obtain IP address automatically checked? if so, change that to Define IP address and enter 196.54.1.10, and 255.255.255.0, into IP address and subnet mask fields respectively
This assignment of a harmless local IP address to the TCP/IP settings bound (connected) to your network adaptor, will stop the in-built DHCP services from waking up every 10 minutes to look for a DHCP server so that it can "fill in the blanks".