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Loss of broadband

Submitted by Peter on Sat Jul 10 2004 18:10 over 4 years ago

My broadband connection suddenly stopped working. This is NTL broadband for the record, using a DLink DI624 Wireless router. All PCs lost connection but could still connect to the router.

The problem turned out to be because the Router had lost the IP address allocated to it from the ISP via DHCP. I pressed the DHCP renew button on the status panel and it all burst into life. Not sure if it's a problem with my new XP setup, deciding to drop the DHCP for me.

I had to manually tell dyndns.org about my new IP address as I don't have my Gentoo box set up to do it. The router should be able to update it automatically but it crashes every time I try to set that up. Hum, maybe they have a new version of the firmware out...

Filed under: di624 gentoo linux ntl

KB Says:

Mon Jan 22 2007 15:44 about 1 year ago

Hi Peter,

I just got a DI-624; after reading good reviews about its better performance than other brands; despite it being an old model.

Unfortunately I spent many hours before I discovered a similar problem to yours. I need to renew DHCP each time I power up the router before I could surf. This is irritating. How did you overcome the situation of having to manually renew the DHCP? Do you have a script that you ran automatically when you boot up your PC?

Thanks in advance.

Peter Says:

Tue Jan 23 2007 08:48 about 1 year ago

I never had a problem with the DHCP but then again I always left it powered on. When I did have to reset it it always sorted the DHCP out itself. I was with NTL Broadband so maybe their DHCP server was just better.

The only problems I had with the DI624 were with the Dynamic IP support where the firmware reset whenever I tried to use it. This I had to get around using a script.

I'm now on ADSL and have a Netgear ADSL wireless router: MUCH better than the DI624. DI624 was ok in it's time but that was two years ago.

Peter

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