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Re: VOIP causing drops of network connection? said by luckycat007:I have two homes (one summer home), both with Comcast basic tier. No issues at one, but at the summer home when I was trying to use bittorrent (to download some files that were in fact legally shared!), my net connection went down; I was not able to get it back up until I changed my router MAC address to clone my computer network card. I contact Comcast about this, they couldn't explain why it happened, and said that they do not block MAC addresses. For the past two days, I've been calling into work using VPN from this address, and that has not been a problem. However, when using my company-provided VOIP my entire Internet connection simply drops and restarts occasionally. Could these things I'm experiencing be related to this? That actually sounds like a bad or obsoleted cable modem. On RR, when Insight upped us from 3/384 to 5/512, my old SB3100 (in use since early 2000) started rebooting every minute or two when I used any significant upstream (most notably Torrents or an active VPN connection). It would stay up as long as there was little or no upstream in use (retrieving mail via POP or surfing). A new modem resolved the issue and I now get 55+KB up on torrents and still have enough headroom to surf. Haven't seen any effects of traffic shaping yet. |
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
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Columbus, OH | Agreed. When I started out I had an OOOLD Toshiba pcx1100 modem and any time I ran any sustained downloads or uploads, after about a minute it would drop the connection completely and force me to reboot it before it would all come back up. Upgraded to a PCX2500 and the issue was solved. Looks like a new modem is an order for you.
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Thanks, I'll look into that..this is an older SB4200 - not incredibly old really - but I haven't used it a ton w/VOIP. What puzzles me though is why would would my router not be able to get a WAN IP address unless I change it's MAC address, and that happened only coincidentally after doing a few bittorrent transfers (comcast cable). |
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| said by luckycat007:Thanks, I'll look into that..this is an older SB4200 - not incredibly old really - but I haven't used it a ton w/VOIP. What puzzles me though is why would would my router not be able to get a WAN IP address unless I change it's MAC address, and that happened only coincidentally after doing a few bittorrent transfers (comcast cable). Your modem might be going. Maybe you can upgrade the firmware. I had the SB4200 when I was with Optonline. The service was 16Mbps/2Mbps. I had 2 VOIP lines, as well as, 4 computers hooked up to the SB4200, and I never had a problem. |
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