From: Michael O'Hare (ohare@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 20:24:18 PST
In hopes that someone has a good idea about what's really happening, I
offer the following experience with the amazingly flaky new attbi.com
cable modem service:
with the former service, I had a very stable system with (going from the
cable) the cable modem, a Linksys 4-port cable router (looks to the
internet like a computer, provides local-only ip addresses to computers
on the LAN) two computers and a print server on the router, plus (via
X-port) a Linksys hub with various other devices connected to it. The
router is set to obtain IP address automatically and issues them to local
devices.
After a great deal of misery, I have the router and four devices working
except that different computers will randomly be unable to access one web
page or another while being able to reach others. For
example, UCB home page and Ebay but not microsoft or yahoo.
At the same time another computer will find everything. One
computer will be able to access mail.attbi.com for one attbi email
account with Eudora but not for another with exactly the same
settings except the username; another computer can get both emails.
Releasing and renewing ip addresses on the computers (that is, from the
router, not from attbi) sometimes helps.
If I connect the hub to the router, with a single computer on the hub,
that computer can get to the web but all the computers on the router lose
their connectivity. Linksys TS was very helpful in getting the
router set up right but totally mystified by this last. I suppose the hub
might have coincidentally gone west just at the time of the
change, but I don't draw to inside straights.
Does this give anyone any ideas?
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