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Skriven 2007-03-19 06:52:52 av Jeff Guerdat
     Kommentar till en text av ED VANCE
Ärende: Re: FIDO
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ED VANCE wrote:

> Once in a while I've found that I have to remove the Power Plug from the
> back of the Linksys Router for a few seconds and plug it back in so it
> will talk to the DSL Modem here.
> 
> Is that normal for Wired Routers?

Nope, it's not normal for any router.

> Another thing I have seen is when I run Netscape 8.0 it will take 15 to
> 30 seconds or so before the Home page I have set starts being sent to
> me.
> 
> I just wait for the LEDs to start blinking, if they don't in a
> reasonable amount of time I reset the power on the Router.

My Linux laptop does something similar with a D-Link wireless router.  I 
note in the status bar at the bottom of Firefox that it's looking up the 
address for the specific site.  Give it enough time (30 seconds or so) 
and it will find it.  I have tried rebooting the router (through the web 
interface to the router) which seems to help but then it takes ~90 
seconds for the reboot so I've actually lost time.  I also note that the 
wired desktop as well as my wife's wireless laptop, both on XP, don't 
exhibit this behavior.  There's no newer firmware for the router - have 
you checked yours?

> I wish the Linksys Router and the DSL Modem both had seperate Up and
> Down LEDs on them so I could tell if my system was requesting info,
> or if Data was being received, like the Telephone Dial-up External
> Modems have.

You can get an idea by using ping, nslookup and tracert.exe (traceroute 
to the rest of the world).  Use ping to see if the router responds (i.e. 
ping 192.168.1.1 or whatever your router's internal IP address is).

If so, try something easy to type such as "nslookup www.google.com" 
which should give you one or more IP addresses (nslookup, or nameserver 
lookup, resolves DNS information to convert a name to an address.  If 
this fails, that's your problem - DNS queries aren't being serviced 
properly.  My D-Link router defaults to using itself as the DNS server 
for machines set up using DHCP - I changed that in the router setup menu 
to use the actual ISP DNS servers (your router may not have this 
option).  Here's a sample output:

nslookup www.google.com
Server:         24.92.226.9
Address:        24.92.226.9#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.google.com  canonical name = www.l.google.com.
Name:   www.l.google.com
Address: 216.239.37.99
Name:   www.l.google.com
Address: 216.239.37.104


Finally, using tracert will show you the progression of the connection, 
hop by hop.  Here's a sample output:

tracert www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (216.239.37.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  2.504 ms  4.673 ms  5.031 ms
  2  10.108.160.1 (10.108.160.1)  15.484 ms  15.534 ms  15.658 ms
  3  24.93.0.217 (24.93.0.217)  13.589 ms  14.200 ms  17.327 ms
  4  srp7-0.rochnymth-rtr04.nyroc.rr.com (24.93.3.118)  17.854 ms 
18.314 ms  18.638 ms
  5  srp3-0.rochnymth-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.93.3.178)  21.807 ms 
22.347 ms  22.672 ms
  6  son0-0-3.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com (24.92.224.178)  30.159 ms 
18.053 ms  19.497 ms
  7  te-3-1.car1.Boston1.Level3.net (4.79.0.73)  24.779 ms  25.226 ms 
27.231 ms
  8  ae-11-11.car2.Boston1.Level3.net (4.69.132.246)  26.806 ms  29.642 
ms  30.156 ms
  9  ae-5-5.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.132.250)  31.348 ms  31.757 
ms  45.230 ms
10  ae-3.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.89)  44.601 ms  61.575 ms 
  60.982 ms
11  ae-11-51.car1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.121.18)  52.137 ms 
ae-11-55.car1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.121.146)  63.794 ms  63.468 ms
12  GOOGLE-INC.car1.Level3.net (4.79.228.38)  43.128 ms  33.979 ms 
35.163 ms
13  66.249.95.126 (66.249.95.126)  34.145 ms  34.227 ms 72.14.232.108 
(72.14.232.108)  33.059 ms
14  72.14.232.106 (72.14.232.106)  34.539 ms  40.450 ms  40.041 ms
15  va-in-f99.google.com (216.239.37.99)  39.277 ms 216.239.48.94 
(216.239.48.94)  42.866 ms  43.209 ms

With a little imagination you can guess at the names and figure out the 
geographical location of many routers.  If there's a series of "splats" 
(* * *), that means something isn't responding and may be the source of 
your trouble - the connection isn't making it all the way through.

> This HP box came with a Internal Modem but I haven't used it yet.
> It is a Agere Soft Modem.
> 
> Do You know what it means by 'Soft Modem'?

"Winmodem", as in many functions are in software, not hardware.  Needs a 
driver that an external modem wouldn't require.
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