Hey there,Want to know: is there some signal an ISP can send to your router thatwill disable it? Some ISPs don't want their users sharing theinternet, and I've heard rumours that there is actually some sort ofsignal they can send out to disable the internet on their routers.If so, this may be happening to me: I have a wireless router set up soI can have the internet in my living room, but every now and again(about 3 or 4 times a week), I loose internet completely, and therouter is unable to reconnect. It gets some error like "cant get ipaddress" or something. The only solution is to unplug the router &modem and plug them back in.Anyone else ever heard of this? Any details you can point me to onthis mysterious signal? Any details I can look up? Any solution tostop the drops anyone can offer?Rob

in that I was at the exteme limit of the service (about12,000 feet I believe). When upping my dsl speed, the modemstarted erroring out and resetting. When they dropped my speedback down, the problem went away. The explanation was thatby doubling my speed, the errors to the modem increasedexponentially. DSL does not care what or how much youdownoad, as it is a dedicated line... many of the cable companiesare now limiting uploads to a gigabyte a month or whatever.If you are on cable, that may be a possibility, but as you areresetting so often, I would doubt that to be the problem.

ISPs kicking routers off internet?

Jul 18, 2006 68 Replies

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Ivor Jones 20 years ago

How do they get to their cars from their doors..?

Ivor

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John Navas 20 years ago

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:54:44 +0100, "Ivor Jones" wrote in :

They live in them. :)

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Pier Danone 20 years ago

| > > Eh? around 250 million people use feet as their daily | > > measure of length, and probably another 50 million | > > think that way. | >

| > He means they use cars. | | How do they get to their cars from their doors..?

Drive through Doctors Practice. You turn up at the first window, then pick up your perscription from the second.

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chris 20 years ago

hmm, no comments? :)

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William P.N. Smith 20 years ago

Here's one! Anything else you need?

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Mark McIntyre 20 years ago

What, to meaure distance? Wow...

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chris 20 years ago

works for me, at least someone read it.

thanks for the comment.

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Allan 19 years ago

As on the M25 and M6. (in the UK)

Allan

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Allan 19 years ago

That's what the mileometer is for, isn't it?

Allan

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