Strange dsl problems

[Josef Lowder]

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Recently, I have been experiencing strange dsl problems, 
which I have been unable to either solve or even pin down. 

My main Linux box which is ethernet wire connected to my 2-wire 
modem/router has had a few dropped signals, but that is minor. 

My backup Linux box which is also ethernet wire connected through 
a hub to the same router has lost the connection entirely. 

My IBM Thinkpad in another room has generally remained connected 
via a 3-com wireless PCI card, though it sometimes drops the 
signal; but when that happens I can always quickly reconnect. 

On my HP zv6000 laptop I have a dual-boot Linux partition and a 
win-xp partition.  I have never been able to get the internal 
broadband 802.11 wireless card to work with the Linux partition, 
but until recently, I have never had any problem maintaining a 
steady 54Mbps wireless connection.  But now that has gone flakey. 
However, I can connect to my neighbor's linksys unsecured wireless 
router at 11Mbps. 

On my wife's computer in another room dual booting Linux and win-xp 
I initially had a wireless connection on the Linux partition, but 
it failed shortly after I set it up, so she has been using the xp 
partition and has maintained a steady 54Mbps connection ... until 
recently, but that connection has become unreliable.  Sometimes 
it works and sometimes it doesn't. 

Today, I called both 2-wire and qwest, but neither were able to 
help me solve the problem. 

I've tried ipconfig on the xps and /sbin/ifconfig on the linux 
boxes and get a mixed bag of IP addresses. 

So I'm stuck.  How can I solve this? 




When I do ipconfig on our two different