PING stops working

What site(s) are you pinging?

Does ping work locally - other pc's, the router, the cable modem?

Many sites block ping. Try pinging

google, yahoo, various others -- the issue isn't sites blocking pings, as i can ping them fine for a while and then all of a sudden the pings stop working -- across the board. i reset the router or modem, and they immediately go back to working.

yes, when this happens pings still work on the LAN side. it's only on the internet side that they stop.

ok, i'm game. which ones should i look at? the router is brand new and i'm pretty sure the only setting i changed on it was the IP address of the router itself. what setting would cause PINGs to work sometimes and not others?

You can try the FAQs for your router at the vendor's support site.

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In my opinion you should take a look at your routersettings, not at the modem.

nothing there that's relevant at all.

turns out is was the router. i switched it out and the problem disappeared. then went back to the original router, and within 12 hrs the original problem re-appeared. why a router would do that, i have no idea -- but there you are.

is it just me, or does Linksys just make poor products? seems like i have problems with a lot of their routers.

Linksys and Netgear are arguably the top performers in the SOHO router space, and have been for at least several years, so it might just be you. Your bad luck, I mean. :)

yeah, i suspected as much. guess i need to work on my router karma. :)