[Discuss] Shaw vs Linux.

[Leamy Acoustic Art Inc.]

Stephen,

        I am using an older D-Link router. I am going to try another
suggestion and I will report back here.

        Michael.



On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 12:33 -0700, stephen hawkes wrote:

> I use shaw, I'm under ubuntu and haven't noticed anything (well, as of 
> yet). I am behind a cheap wireless router/firewall (I have a nat'd 
> private ip on this comp). Are you running a router, or are you using a 
> switch/hub and grabbing multiple IPs from shaw (ie one for your comp and 
> one for the wife's)? That may have nothing to do with it, but I am 
> curious none the less.
> 
> Leamy Acoustic Art Inc. wrote:
> > Hello Vlug.
> >
> > Never posted before but I am stumped. My name is Michael Leamy & I am a
> > desktop user of Linux ... currently Mandriva 2006 Free ... and up until
> > recently I have had no troubles. I am looking for advise on my network,
> > which recently has become quite flaky, disconnecting after about five
> > minutes for seemingly no reason. Oddly enough while torrenting various
> > distros I noticed that the network remains quite functional, right up
> > until the download is finished and I end the torrent. Enquiries with
> > Shaw made me aware that my problem started right after they apparently
> > did a firmware update to their modems, and I suspect if that's true then
> > the problem is in there somewhere.
> >
> > First, has anyone else had trouble with Shaw that sounds similar, and if
> > not would anyone be willing to offer a direction for me to Google? I
> > realize that I haven't given much information, but so far I haven't got
> > much to go on. Just so everyone knows I have tried resetting Mandriva's
> > Shorewall to greater and lesser levels of paranoia, including wide open,
> > all with no effect. As well, My wife's Windows machine hasn't been
> > affected, which makes me suspect this might be quite deliberate.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any tips.
> >
> > Michael Leamy.
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