High Speed Internet and Modems and stuff

[John Macdonald]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:51:48AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:40:37AM -0400, Jon Thiele wrote:
> > very strange - i have never experienced anything like this...  i've used
> > linksys, smc and even the low-end dlinks without issues.  old firmware
> > maybe???
> 
> Updated many times, never made a difference.  I get occational crashes
> on my USR8054 WAP too, although nowhere near as often as my parents.  I
> keep wondering if they are sensitive to bad power (in which case I
> should plug them into a UPS I guess).

That may well be the problem - I have to power cycle my ADSL
modem a few times per month and it is on a busy circuit -
the computers will notice a power dip and restart every month
and a half or so, perhaps the modem is failing on tan-outs
while the computers only restart on full-blown brown-outs.

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