[nylug-talk] earthlink to cablevision - keep losing my network card

[Carl Friedberg]

> From: Fred Cocozzelli [fpc at paxinternational.com]

> 
> I recently moved from one side of Brooklyn to the other and found
> myself
> having to switch broadband companies. Apparently Earthlink / Time
> Warner
> and Cablevision have divided up the borough. With Earthlink I had no
> trouble with my connection, but with Cablevision I keep losing my
> network card when I boot up one of my machines. The machine runs Suse
> 9.2. Once I reset the card with Yast, it connects fine. But if I shut
> down, its gone on reboot.
> 

Fred,

I have cablevision, and it has been unbelievably solid. Maybe one
or two hiccups a year, over the last 3 years (but this is for 
western Suffolk county, not Brooklyn).

I do have a Linksys wired router (BEFSR81) between the cable modem and
my boxes (including Ubuntu and Windows boxen). About $85 from Amazon
with free shipping. I don't know if this is true of the current
version, but a really nice feature of this router is something of
a command line interface, and SNMP support so you can monitor your
bandwidth utilization with MRTG.

Carl Friedberg
friedberg at comets.com
www.comets.com

> Any ideas?
> 
> - Fred
> 
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