I have been having some troubles with my DSL internet connection for a while now. First an upgrade appeared to remove some or all of the dhcp related software on my box. Thanks to this list I think I fixed that by installing dhcp3-client. But, then the connection would only be there about half of the time I booted. Thanks again to this list I can now work around that, though I still don't know how to fix it entirely.
More troubling at this time, though, is that even when I have a connection it drops out. Very often I will open a browser and get one page up, and then for something like five minutes I can do nothing. No pages will load and nothing goes out. If I open a terminal and try something like 'ping www.google.com' it does nothing at all. Finally, things will start moving again but this will only last for a few minutes and then drop out again. BTW, my wife's Windows box connects fine and does not have this problem, and so I am assuming it is something in my system. In order to see if things were looking okay when it was working I pinged google and got this: PING www.l.google.com (64.233.187.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=41.2 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=39.8 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=39.7 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=59.0 ms --- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2998ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 39.704/44.948/59.051/8.164 ms This looked fine to me, or at least not bad in any way. I still get the same speeds with downloads and such, about 350Kbs from a decent server, and so it seems that when things drop out they do so completely, and otherwise the connection is fine. But I just don't know where to start looking for an answer. What could cause such dropouts and how could I narrow things down? Did I not install everything which helps configure and setup such a connection? Thanks, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
