Q: My cable modem is connected to a wireless router, and from a laptop wirelessly connected to me, and a computer connected to Port 1 to 7ft Cat-5 cable. The internet works fine, but for some reason . I have to reset my cable modem about once every 36 hours or so. If I do not say no connection my desktop and my laptop will not recognize? Is it a lousy provider? Because I have buddy that has to do the same thing that lives across town. Or is it just a draw back of the cable?
Best Answer: Aint the computer you have to get into, its the router or access point and its probably password protected.
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Re:Have you tried power cycling the router instead of the cable modem to see if that brings it back? If so, then it's not the cable modem causing the problem.
I can access my router via it's IP and tell it do to a release/renew any time it gets stuck but it isn't very often.
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Re:Yeah, I'd say check with the cable company to see if they have a newer cable modem. It's usually a painless and free process to get a new one from them.
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Re:I had that. Every day or two I would lose connection. SOmetimes it got down to every hour or two of heavy use, (online game play). Called the cable company, they replaced the modem. No problems since.
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Re:I put the router and the cable modem on one surge protector which I keep accessible. If I have any problem I turn 'em both off briefly, then back on. It's annoying, but…
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Re:With Comcast cable, that is almost routine. About once a week I simply unplug the power from the router and force it to re-seek the IP that has changed. It's really sort of routine.
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Re:What router/firmware?
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Re:Get any firmware upgrades that are available for your router.
99% sure this is your routers IP lease not being renewed by the router , you can manually set this in the routers setup. But any firmware upgrade that may be available will most likely update this setting? What do you have a Linksys WRT54g?
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Re:Depending on the router there should be a hard-reset button you can use to clear everything out. Just FYI.
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Re:Awesome, I've never checked the router settings. I bought it used from someone here on the forums, so it may very well be router settings
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Re:The default lease time is not set by Windows, it's a setting in the router that you can change.
Re:Maybe there is a setting in the router to tell it not to renew it's DHCP lease. Or perhaps you router needs to do it more often, what is the default DHCP lease time with windows?
Re:maybe the router??? Dynamic or Static IP?? Could be trying to re-new and something w/ your settings isn't allowng it maybe.
Re:My system is all hardwired. I don't even like the idea of Wireless. My cable modem never seems to lose the connection unless I physically unplug the power to it (no off-on switch).
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