I hope that subject line covered it.
I recently changed PPPoE DSL providers (a telephone company) and have been having trouble connecting to the Net since.
Here's the setup. Laptop running WIndows XP, DSL modem (speedstream 5260), Netgear WGR614 v4 router with the latest (and only) firmware 5.0_07. DSL is PPPoE with login.
Before the DSL provider switch, my connection whether direct to the modem or via the wifi router was virtually the same. There was no problem.
Since then, when connected via the router (wired to the router, not wifi, though the wifi performance is the same) service has become spotty.
Here's what happens. When I request a page, 9 times out of 10, I get an error "Server not found" (this is in Firefox. Explorer behaves as badly.) I then have to hit the Refresh or Try again button once or twice, before the page eventually loads. You can imagine this is annoying, having to refresh, refresh everytime one accesses the Web. By the second or third try, I get through.
If I bypass the router and plug directly into the modem, the pages all load first time, every time. Rebooting the modem, router, and PC have not helped performance.
The only thing that has changed recently was the DSL Provider. None of this was a problem before the switch. I should note that the new DSL service is one of those "lite" services (because I don't have big throughput needs.) "up to 512Kbps"
I have tried changing the router's timeout to 0 but that didn't improve things.
Any suggestions?
if the problem is with the service (or the "Lite" aspect of the service) I will change providers. It seems strange though that when wired directly to the modem, all is well, but with the router in place, the performance--even wired to the router--changes so radically. I didn't understand that a wired router connection could so degrade performance.
is there something about Lite that could cause this problem?
Many thanks