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From: J Tinsby on 14 Jun 2010 01:50
Doesn't XP flush the IP address when it's shut off so it's ready for a
new one when you restart it? The reason I ask is:

I have a Linksys WRTP54G wireless router that has 2 phone ports for
use with the Vonage phone company.

When we have electrical strorms I unplug everything including my cable
connection to my modem, the router and of course the 'puter. After the
storm it can take me up to 45 minutes to get an internet connection
again.

The setup is a Surfboard cable modem that feeds the Linksys then to
one of my motherboard's 2 ethernet connectors. When powering up after
a storm I power them in that order. But I continually get the message
ballon that says " A network cable has been unplugged." The ethernet
connection light on the router is either blinking or isn't on at all.
When I have a proper connection it's on solidly all the time until I
shut off the computer then it goes dark. In spite of all this I do get
a useable phone connection as the phone light on the Linksys comes on.

If I elminate the router, of course losing my Vonage, and plug the
computer in directly to the modem and power up, I get a connection
immediately.

The only way I could get THIS connection after 5 reboots of everything
was to change to the other ethernet port on my MB.

I don't think it should take all this fooling around to get an IP
address so I can get a connection.

I have tried the command 'IPCONFIG/RELEASE."

Once I have a good connection to the 'net with the above setup, I can
shut the machine off entirely, or let it sleep or hibernate and once
it starts to boot I get a solid ethernet light on the router.
Unplugging everything sends it into a frenzy!

I am using XP pro SP3 with all updates, the ISP is Comcast. What is
wrong or what am I doing wrong?

Vonage, although they try to help haven't been able to fix the
trouble, it may be beyond their purvie, but they do try.

I hope this topic is appropriate for this forum, if note please move
it to where it should have been posted.

Cheers,

J T


From: Doug W. on 14 Jun 2010 02:27
My only experience was with my tower to tower high speed
connection. I had to be hospitalized and unplugged my computer
from the wall. Two weeks later found my internet connection
down. The ISP said that it polls the connection periodically and
if there is no answering poll it shuts off the service. They say
to leave the wall plug and router alone and shut off the
computer next time that I have to leave it alone for any
extended time.

I had to phone the ISP and they restored my service without
sending a service man out athough sometimes that is necessary.

Hope that helps somewhat as it does explain at least part of the
procedure involved.
==

"J Tinsby" <none(a)present.com> wrote in message
news:cefb16pe9oa9356q0d5mtmejlnbs6geqdf(a)4ax.com...
> Doesn't XP flush the IP address when it's shut off so it's
> ready for a
> new one when you restart it? The reason I ask is:
>
> I have a Linksys WRTP54G wireless router that has 2 phone
> ports for
> use with the Vonage phone company.
>
> When we have electrical strorms I unplug everything including
> my cable
> connection to my modem, the router and of course the 'puter.
> After the
> storm it can take me up to 45 minutes to get an internet
> connection
> again.
>
> The setup is a Surfboard cable modem that feeds the Linksys
> then to
> one of my motherboard's 2 ethernet connectors. When powering
> up after
> a storm I power them in that order. But I continually get the
> message
> ballon that says " A network cable has been unplugged." The
> ethernet
> connection light on the router is either blinking or isn't on
> at all.
> When I have a proper connection it's on solidly all the time
> until I
> shut off the computer then it goes dark. In spite of all this
> I do get
> a useable phone connection as the phone light on the Linksys
> comes on.
>
> If I elminate the router, of course losing my Vonage, and plug
> the
> computer in directly to the modem and power up, I get a
> connection
> immediately.
>
> The only way I could get THIS connection after 5 reboots of
> everything
> was to change to the other ethernet port on my MB.
>
> I don't think it should take all this fooling around to get an
> IP
> address so I can get a connection.
>
> I have tried the command 'IPCONFIG/RELEASE."
>
> Once I have a good connection to the 'net with the above
> setup, I can
> shut the machine off entirely, or let it sleep or hibernate
> and once
> it starts to boot I get a solid ethernet light on the router.
> Unplugging everything sends it into a frenzy!
>
> I am using XP pro SP3 with all updates, the ISP is Comcast.
> What is
> wrong or what am I doing wrong?
>
> Vonage, although they try to help haven't been able to fix the
> trouble, it may be beyond their purvie, but they do try.
>
> I hope this topic is appropriate for this forum, if note
> please move
> it to where it should have been posted.
>
> Cheers,
>
> J T
>
>

From: Mike S on 14 Jun 2010 02:53
On 6/13/2010 10:50 PM, J Tinsby wrote:
>
> Doesn't XP flush the IP address when it's shut off so it's ready for a
> new one when you restart it? The reason I ask is:
>
> I have a Linksys WRTP54G wireless router that has 2 phone ports for
> use with the Vonage phone company.
>
> When we have electrical strorms I unplug everything including my cable
> connection to my modem, the router and of course the 'puter. After the
> storm it can take me up to 45 minutes to get an internet connection
> again.
>
> The setup is a Surfboard cable modem that feeds the Linksys then to
> one of my motherboard's 2 ethernet connectors. When powering up after
> a storm I power them in that order. But I continually get the message
> ballon that says " A network cable has been unplugged." The ethernet
> connection light on the router is either blinking or isn't on at all.
> When I have a proper connection it's on solidly all the time until I
> shut off the computer then it goes dark. In spite of all this I do get
> a useable phone connection as the phone light on the Linksys comes on.
>
> If I elminate the router, of course losing my Vonage, and plug the
> computer in directly to the modem and power up, I get a connection
> immediately.
>
> The only way I could get THIS connection after 5 reboots of everything
> was to change to the other ethernet port on my MB.
>
> I don't think it should take all this fooling around to get an IP
> address so I can get a connection.
>
> I have tried the command 'IPCONFIG/RELEASE."
> Once I have a good connection to the 'net with the above setup, I can
> shut the machine off entirely, or let it sleep or hibernate and once
> it starts to boot I get a solid ethernet light on the router.
> Unplugging everything sends it into a frenzy!
> I am using XP pro SP3 with all updates, the ISP is Comcast. What is
> wrong or what am I doing wrong?
> Vonage, although they try to help haven't been able to fix the
> trouble, it may be beyond their purvie, but they do try.
> I hope this topic is appropriate for this forum, if note please move
> it to where it should have been posted.
> Cheers,
> J T

I have an XP Pro box that I run into a router, which itself is connected
to another router. I hibernate my machine instead of turning it off, and
when I boot up it often has problems connecting, so I made a small batch
file that I run when I restart it after a hibernate. Maybe running this
batch file will help you. This is just a patch, I'm not sure what the
source of your connection problem is, but if this works it's an easy fix.

Just save this as a filename.bat file on your desktop and double-click
it to run it after when you have turned everything on but still have a
blinking ethernet light on the router. Remove the first line to change
to a default color scheme.

color 4f
cd \
cls
rem ================================
rem Releasing IP Configuration
rem ================================
rem
ipconfig /release
cls
rem ================================
rem Renewing IP Configuration
rem ================================
ipconfig /renew
cls
echo ================================
echo Done!!
echo ================================

Mike

From: J Tinsby on 14 Jun 2010 07:38
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:53:23 -0700, Mike S <mscir(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I have an XP Pro box that I run into a router, which itself is connected
>to another router. I hibernate my machine instead of turning it off, and
>when I boot up it often has problems connecting, so I made a small batch
>file that I run when I restart it after a hibernate. Maybe running this
>batch file will help you. This is just a patch, I'm not sure what the
>source of your connection problem is, but if this works it's an easy fix.
>
>Just save this as a filename.bat file on your desktop and double-click
>it to run it after when you have turned everything on but still have a
>blinking ethernet light on the router. Remove the first line to change
>to a default color scheme.
>
>color 4f
>cd \
>cls
>rem ================================
>rem Releasing IP Configuration
>rem ================================
>rem
>ipconfig /release
>cls
>rem ================================
>rem Renewing IP Configuration
>rem ================================
>ipconfig /renew
>cls
>echo ================================
>echo Done!!
>echo ================================
>
>Mike


Mike,

Thanks for the batch file I will try it! The odd thing is I never used
to have this trouble.

Regards,

J T
From: J Tinsby on 14 Jun 2010 07:47
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:27:14 -0600, "Doug W." <stand(a)attention> wrote:

>My only experience was with my tower to tower high speed
>connection. I had to be hospitalized and unplugged my computer
>from the wall. Two weeks later found my internet connection
>down. The ISP said that it polls the connection periodically and
>if there is no answering poll it shuts off the service. They say
>to leave the wall plug and router alone and shut off the
>computer next time that I have to leave it alone for any
>extended time.
>
>I had to phone the ISP and they restored my service without
>sending a service man out athough sometimes that is necessary.
>
>Hope that helps somewhat as it does explain at least part of the
>procedure involved.
>==
>

Hi Doug,

It's a possiblilty I guess that the ISP is shutting off the
connection. But 2 years back I had a huge line surge during a storm
that took $1k of stuff including parts in the computer. This is a new
one I built so there's no worry about a damaged component.

I have to unplug everything here when we get a storm, to leave the
router plugged in would be deadly, they don't make this brand wireless
router anymore for use with Vonage.

Plus when I connect the computer direclty to the modem after it's been
shut down for many hours, I can get a connection immediately. So there
must be a connection available for it to lock onto.

Thank you for your reply!

J T
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