Woo Demonoid is online again!!!

[Jun]

Hmm, Fly, I found that guide I was referring to, can send it to you....or I could just post it in the Useful Information section. Whichever works for me.

Edit: Found that now Comcast doesn't use Sandvine anymore (the thing they were using to mess with p2p/bt connections) so the guide may be useless now. But if you want, I can still send/post it.

[Orion]

try a different one. A real decent torrent program that I use is Utorrent. http://www.utorrent.com/

[Flyvåpnet]

Thanks for digging up that Comcast guide, Jun!  I suggest you post it to this message board, as you indicated you might, along with the disclaimer you wrote.  More folks can benefit from it that way.



Orion, I'll try that torrent software you mentioned.  Wish me luck!



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[Jun]

Okay I will post that guide/tut here.

Hmm, would really changing torrent client fix it, Orion? Since Fly said it did it with SoulSeek (P2P-like program) as well

[Flyvåpnet]

I'm sorry to make such a gloomy report, Orion, but the same intermittent connectivity happens with µTorrent running.  I'm just going to forget about peer-to-peer file sharing until such time as a fix comes down the 'pike.  It's got to be a Comcast thing, in my case anyway.



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[Jun]

Fly, Orion and I were talking about it (as well as googling about it), and came up with the probable problem being that your router/modem is overheating becoming confused and disconnecting then reconnecting. What is the router/modem you connect to to get to the Internet?

[Flyvåpnet]

Jun, my modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB4100 Cable Modem and my router is a Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router BEFSR41.  Your efforts are appreciated and I thank you both for helping me with this problem!  It's odd:  this intermittent-connectivity scenario only takes place when I'm using peer-to-peer software and/or have the relevant port-forwarding settings enabled in the router.  When I close the file-sharing applications and disable those port-forwarding settings in the router, the problem goes away - after a computing-system restart.  The static-IP address settings for the computer's Network Connections functions don't seem to cause any problems.



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[Orion]

There have been reported problems with that particular router. (as stated when a search is done on google - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=4LH&q=Linksys+BEFSR41+problems&aq=f&oq=&aqi= So you are not the only one this happens to.  I'd suggest conecting directly to your Cable modem and see what happens. If the problem goes away, then it's your router that is the problem. If it doesn't go away, then I would switch your Ethernet cables around and see if that helps. If it still causes fits, then I'd suggest asking Comcast to send you another modem.

[Flyvåpnet]

Orion, here's what I've done:  the router has been removed entirely.  I've put the Local Area Network settings back to finding an Internet-protocol address automatically.  With this excellent desktop computing system you built and gave me, I'll only be using the laptop occasionally.  Although the "hardware firewall" aspect of a router is nice, connectivity is even nicer!



Under this new regimen, which is actually the old regimen, Soulseek works just fine: green lights all down the track.  Yay!  I've not tried either BitTorrent or µTorrent yet, but I'll do that today/tonight.  What prompted all this was my reaching the limit of patience when a firmware "update" for the router sent it into a complete tailspin.  So, to hell with the damned thing.



The only inconvenience is the fact I need to reset the cable modem whenever I switch its output from the desktop to the laptop - or vice versa.  But since I won't be switching over to the laptop very often, it's not a problem of any significance.  Thanks a bunch, Jun and Orion, for all your input on this!



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[Orion]

Well, I'd just get a different router when you can afford one. I think that the one you have is becoming forgetful and can't route packages right anymore.

[NarutakiTwinsRule]

i'll take an invite to demonoid if they still do that.

if not, then... i'll camp my computer for a while. or something.