Are you guys still out there?I have a friend who bought a Linksys router. He was having trouble with hislast router, and I recommend he buy a good Cisco router since he is seriousabout his server, using comcast broadband I think, previously he said he wasusing T1. He is using Macs, but he has Unix set up as the server, so theproblem is he wants to correct a problem he has, but has been unable to findthe fix. First he bought a new cable modem, and then he bought a new router.I told him to get a good used Cisco router, but he went again for the cheaphome network router I guess.He lives in New Jersey, and states close by can bring up his site and pages,no problem, but people here in California like me, and other friends here300 miles south have not been able to bring up his site either. Alsooversees friends say they also have trouble bringing up his site. It seemsto time out always. It tries to bring up the pages and then it times outlike 404. The root page I can bring up, but there is not content on itanyway for a real test. One of his pages which has an interview on it withseveral photos always times out for me. I can ping and tracert, but italways seems to time out just near its source before. I completed a tracerecently, but it stills had problems with his pages and such.I am thinking this is a limitation of a cheap router, and doesn't haveanywhere near the capabilities of a Cisco router. Would a bottom line usedCisco router be the fix? Is Linksys really able to route connectionsworldwide in robust manner? I wouldn't think so. This is basically the typeI think that Good Guys or Best Buy sells.Any clues on this, what the fix might be in his settings, or is this justthe limitations of a cheap router?thanks,SM

I am neither Bernie nor Hansang Bae, but it's an intriguing problem, so I'll take a stab at it.If users in "states close by can bring up his site and pages, no problem", then I doubt the problem is in the router - there is no difference in transferring content from a user one block away or one continent away - the router doesn't care.I would be curious to know if the users who are able to access the content are all on the same provider's network, I.e. Comcast Cablevision. If the "cans" are on Comcast and the "can'ts" aren't, then it suggests the problem occurs when the traffic has to travel off-net.Outside of an on-net vs off-net issue, it almost sounds like a regional routing issue, like the traffic is being subjected to poor routing, resulting in really high latency, resulting in content timeout. How many hops did your traceroute go through, and what kind of hop-to-hop intervals did you see?Of course, anyone in this group who understands the issues better than do I, please feel...

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GoneBeforeMyTime 19 years ago

Even though he says he will take a look at the router later, he really meant yet aga The latency issue exists because the server needs a second static IP. And for some reason, routing through ports takes longer and causes these delays/timeouts.

There are 3 solutions to this problem that I have to undertake:

Upgrade the server software. This is a major thing. I anticipate doing this by April.
Upgrade the OS to the latest version which supposedly helps with an MTU issue. I will do this this week.
Static IP

If these 3 things don't fix the problem, then I will take a closer look at the router and its settings, including upgrading the router to something more substantial.

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GoneBeforeMyTime 19 years ago

Another bit...

Even though he says he will take a look at the router later, he really meant yet aga The latency issue exists because the server needs a second static IP. And for some reason, routing through ports takes longer and causes these delays/timeouts.

There are 3 solutions to this problem that I have to undertake:

Upgrade the server software. This is a major thing. I anticipate doing this by April.
Upgrade the OS to the latest version which supposedly helps with an MTU issue. I will do this this week.
Static IP

If these 3 things don't fix the problem, then I will take a closer look at the router and its settings, including upgrading the router to something more substantial.

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GoneBeforeMyTime 19 years ago

another bit...

Even though he says he will take a look at the router later, he really meant yet aga The latency issue exists because the server needs a second static IP. And for some reason, routing through ports takes longer and causes these delays/timeouts.

There are 3 solutions to this problem that I have to undertake:

Upgrade the server software. This is a major thing. I anticipate doing this by April.
Upgrade the OS to the latest version which supposedly helps with an MTU issue. I will do this this week.
Static IP

If these 3 things don't fix the problem, then I will take a closer look at the router and its settings, including upgrading the router to something more substantial.

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Gary Balliet 19 years ago

Might be dns issues. Try to ping his ip and then ping his domain name. They should be very close to the same. As well, does you friend have reverse dns enabled? Some isp's are kinda funny and really need it to be enabled as per some RFC before they are happy about you going there (phishing and all). Crap router won't matter.

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