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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:31:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Should I enable jumbo frames?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23403144</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hey guys.  I just bought a Netgear GA311 gigabit nic that is wired directly into my cable modem (Surfborard 6120) I subscribe to 60meg download internet.

I wanted to know if I should enable jumbo frames on the nic.

The settings I have range from 2KB-7KB for the frames.

What setting should I use and would it help with 60meg internet?

Thanks!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 14:48:53</pubDate>
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<title>[XP] WiFi only works if Unsecured</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23407236</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have about gone crazy fighting this issue. I replaced my router with a Netgear N router. I have 2 laptops running Linksys/Cisco USB G adapters and one desktop hardwired to the router. The desktop works fine. But neither of the 2 laptops will aquire an IP address. 
I thought it was a bad modem so I took it back and got a Linksys/Cisco N router. Same exact issue. Now I've got a D-Link N router. Same issue.
The wierd thing is that if I use No security at all I can connect just fine. I've tried using WEP and WPA2 security.

Ideas?
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The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself...... and spiders.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 17:31:25</pubDate>
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<title>[Windows] [HELP] Intermittent internet dropouts</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23406791</link>
<description><![CDATA[O/Ses affected OSX 10.6.* Windows 7 RC1 Windows XP SP3, Windows Home Server?
ISP Comcast Lafayette IN (formerly Insightbb)
Modem Motorola SURFboard SB5101 (current) or RCA DCM425
Router Netgear WGR614v9 (current) or Buffalo WHR N300
Connected to Router Wired: Playstation 3, HP Ex475 MediaSmart Server, Linksys PAP2 (Vonage), Apple Macbook Pro 
Wireless Toshiba Satellite A205, Home Built Desktop via Linksys WGA600N , TiVo via D-Link DWL-122. HP ZD8110US Laptop.

Running On Home Server uTorrent, Simplify Media, WHS

The computers on my network suffer from an intermittent failure to access the internet via any web browser, despite network access being fully functional, uTorrent, Simplify Media, WHS & Vonage all accessing the internet perfectly.

Waiting it out or restarting the router (or clicking the "Test" button in Netgear's settings which is the only way that I can find to remote reset it) are the only ways that return web access to normal conditions.

This situation happened with the RCA modem as well as the Buffalo Router. It also manifests itself more on the Windows machines than the Mac. I cannot be sure about the WHS unit as that is a headless machine.

Can anybody shed a light on the reason why this happens and what can be done to prevent this from happening?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 15:15:32</pubDate>
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<title>Using OTS equipment to extend &#x22;The Last Mile&#x22; to your ISP</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23398627</link>
<description><![CDATA[After thinking about this for over a year. My original plan was to extend the ISP's "The Last Mile" by means of a directional antenna (a Dish, Cantenna, etc) and a pair of DD-WRT (or OpenWRT) compatible routers so people who are less than a few miles can get broadband by means of a friend who can get it or working with the ISP to extend it using the customer's equipment.

I've tried this with a pair of WRT54G's with success (running DD-WRT), and even with a pair of old ActionTec GT-701WG's (running OpenWRT).

Are there any other success stories out there?
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Bresnan 15M/1M|MyWS[P4HT@4.01GHz,2GB RAM,2x1TB HDDs,Win7]|WifeWS[P4@2.4GHz,1GB RAM,60GB HDD,Win7]|Router[2xP3@1GHz,640MB RAM,18GB HDD,Allied Telesyn AT-2560FX,Kingston KNE100TX,2xDigital DE504,Compaq NC3131,iPro/1000DP,Blitz BWI715,Gentoo Linux]]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-26 10:37:03</pubDate>
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<title>PPP: No response to 6 LCP echo requests. What is this ?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23351856</link>
<description><![CDATA[Everytime my internet slows down and then disconnects i get this message in my router log and then it takes forever to reconnect and when it does it connects at a slow speed.

PPP: No response to 6 LCP echo requests.
ppp: Connection Terminated.

I have the pppoe in the router and i have a Motorola 2210 dsl modem from att. 

The Techs have came in over many times and never find the problem. Well if this has happened to anybody it would be appreciated if you help me solve this annoying problem.

I don't know if it's the router that is giving up or the modem or if it's because i'm far from the servers. But i'm sure it's the modem or the router because it would never do that.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-16 23:23:41</pubDate>
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<title>Smoothwall? M0n0wall? pfsense???</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23392526</link>
<description><![CDATA[Since about 6 months, I've been trying to find a good, stable and safe hardware firewall.

I have a very good understanding of networking and I would live to have something that I can fine tune to my needs and that is also very secure.
The problem I found is that there is not a lot of these appliances in the sub 3-400$ marked and they all have a lot of features that I don't need.

I was really looking at the Netgear FVS338 that seemed good to me! The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that it is a proprietary thing, with limited support, limited updates and no good documentation.

And then, looking at what I have in my house, I came across an old motherboard, cpu and power supply. 
That's when I thought about installing something like smoothwall on it.

Now, my "question" is... What is the best and most easy to use firewall/operating system ??? It seems to me like smoothwall is a good choice...
I HAVE NO... BUT I MEAN NO EXPERIENCE AT ALL IN THE LINUX WORLD. I don't even have a lot of experience in operating system design. I sort of know windows and mac os but that's it. 
As I said, I know a LOT about the theory of networking, but not how it is implemented in operating systems. 

Do I need to have such experience in order to use smoothwall???

Will I have more support and docs with such a product??

Are there frequent updates??? Are the security flaws (if there is any) fixed faster than with commercial products?

Can I really put my trust in it?? Is it stable??

I think that's all with my questions... 

Thanks for your help

Alex]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-25 01:33:26</pubDate>
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<title>MLPPP bonding on a WRT54GL router in front of a Cisco 1841</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23258599</link>
<description><![CDATA[I watched the video detailing how to bond two DSL  lines on a Linksys on this thread http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22638014-MLPPP-bonding-howto-video  and it seems almost too easy.

We have a Cisco 1841 that is currently being used for our T1 that will be replaced by two DSL lines next week.  I can't find any good info on how to make use of the Cisco to bond two DSL lines so I am wondering if I can place the Cisco downstream from the Linksys.  The idea being that the Linksys does the bonding and the Cisco does whatever else it does (not even sure if I need it.  Maybe it will end up on eBay.)  

Obviously I think the Cisco was overkill and we never would have bought it except that it came by way of a hosted VoIP solution which we are going to cancel and bring in-house using Asterisk.

I appreciate any advice and if anyone is in Seattle or can recommend someone here I am certainly in the market for a free-lance network guy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-29 03:36:16</pubDate>
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<title>[Connection Sharing] Using a router for ethernet hub only</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23381945</link>
<description><![CDATA[I currently have my place pre-wired for internet.  In my media room I only have one Ethernet outlet in my media room.  My objective is to split the signal downstairs with hard wire to my ps3, pc, and xbox 360.  I have an extra linksys router sitting around.

Am i able to my pre-wire ethernet cable in my media room to my extra router to split the signal or am I needing another ethernet hub to do this

Thank you]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-23 04:48:29</pubDate>
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<title>local traffic is being blocked</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23341051</link>
<description><![CDATA[i've been ignoring this problem for months now but i'm now getting very annoyed by this so i started looking into it

it all started when i flashed my wrt54gl router with a tomato firmware, so my first guess is a bad router config, but i can't seem to figure it out

all the local traffic passed within my lan is blocked by something.  can't ping lan pc, can't use vnc, can't use utorrent webui (using local ip), can't ssh to local pc, can even use win filesharing

the only way i got one of them to work (only tried on ssh), was to setup port forwarding for both local machines involved.  and since i'm using dhcp, wireless connections, and like 5+ computers on my lan (only one has static ip), setting up port forwarding for each one is gonna be a pain

any suggestions?  thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-14 13:52:49</pubDate>
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