OK, you
got me started. First the actiontec is a piece of #$%@$. It has a know bug with dns, that has never been
fixed.
Dealing
with qwest tech is a pain, they will spend at least an hour going through the
simple steps (which is all scripted), before they will escalate to some second
tier. It is hard to get them to admit the problem is on their
side.
I had a
problem with the DSLAM one time, and I knew it wasn't on my side, but they
made me jump through hoops, before they finally said it was the switch. A week
later I had the same problem, and they wanted me to jump through the same
hoops, even after I got the second tier, they told me it wasn't the same
problem. Guess what, it was, but it took me 1 1/2 hours to get them to realize
it. turned out to be a failing dslam.
If you're
persistent (and have the time), you can get them to resolve your
problem.
Can you
tell us that you latency is to your first hop. Right now mine is very high
120ms, I had this before and they fixed it, but I recently started seeing it
again, and it is very bad for gaming.
To get you
latency do a traceroute to qwest.com and it will be the first phnx.dsl.gw?? that it
hits.
I can't
find anything on the actiontec that will show me the lease times, but I can
tell you I only get a new IP when I reset the modem.
Are you
sure, that it is the lease time ?, could the modem be resetting itself ?,
might it be a heat problem ? if that point a fan at it and see if it lengthens
the time.
When it
happens are all the lights still on, on the modem ?, if not then I'd say you
are having a problem with the modem.
I remember that I went through a DSL modem every year due to bad
lines in my area.
I had a static IP and it would just drop connection
randomly when the modem was going bad. If I had a non-static IP it
would have done what you're experiencing.
Your modem might be ready
for replacement.
If you complain enough they'll RMA a new one to
you/them.
--
JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services
LLC
jd@twingeckos.com480.288.8195x201
http://www.twingeckos.comGeorge Burns - "I
would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
JD Austin wrote:
I used to have it. I think there is a 'keep
alive' option in the settings on the 2wire modem (I had an actiontec
modem).
If not have the box you're sshing into ping google every minute
or two (ping -c 20 google.com) via a cron job.
Sadly
that wont do any good as I said I can be ssh into the box and be typing away
at command prompt and my connection drops and I have to wait 60 seconds to
get back in and the modem has a new
IP.
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