[Cialug] Mediacom Connection

[David Champion]

Jim Asbille wrote:
> I am having a problem that I am baffled by.  I have two computers that
> are connected by wire to a Buffalo router that also has wireless.  The
> machines are Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenSuse.  Over the last week they keep
> losing their connection to the internet.  I have to disconnect the
> modem and router and then reconnect them to reestablish my connection
> to the internet.  This morning I can't get either one to reconnect.
>
> On a whim I fired up my work laptop which has Windows XP and uses
> wireless.  It connected no problem.  What gives?  Anybody have any
> ideas what could be happening?
>
>   
Have you checked to see if there's a firmware update for your router? A 
lot of Buffalo routers will run dd-wrt, which may be more robust than 
the factory firmware.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html

-dc