[Dxbase] DXBase 2006 - staying connected to DSL

[N2TK, Tony]

Tnx Tony. Will give it a try after I come back from my next trip. I don't
think my wife will be too happy I take out the router right now. I head out
of town tomorrow for a few days.

I was getting disconnected, sometimes every hour. I had upgraded to DXBase
2006 and put on the new router about the same time. That is why I wasn't
sure which one was the culprit. I assumed I hadn't set up something properly
with one or both. Well it looks like it is the router. Since I changed the
time on the "advertisement period" (whatever that means), I have stayed
connected to the dx clusters on both PC's except for that disconnect this
morning.  I am still not sure about the difference between "connection
status" and "system uptime".
73,
N2TK, Tony

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Tony Cash [mailto:kd4k at adelphia.net]
Sent:	Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:28 PM
To:	N2TK, Tony; 'Greg'
Cc:	'Dxbase (E-mail)'
Subject:	Re: [Dxbase] DXBase 2006 - staying connected to DSL

My bet is that the cause is your complete DSL connection (your DSL is
going down and thus you lose connection). To confirm this, remove your
Router and hook your computer up direct to the DSL modem. If I am correct
then you will continue to lose your connection from time to time. If your
router
is at fault then you want lose your connection any more.

73 de Tony, KD4K
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----- Original Message -----
From: "N2TK, Tony" <tony.kaz at verizon.net>
To: "'Greg'" <n8tdl at earthlink.net>; "'Tony Cash'" <kd4k at adelphia.net>
Cc: "'Dxbase (E-mail)'" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Dxbase] DXBase 2006 - staying connected to DSL


> Tnx for all the feedback. Appreciate all the mails I received on this
> subject. I didn't respond till today cause I was trying some of the ideas
> to
> see what would happen.
>
> Yesterday morning I went into the setup screen on the Netgear router. I
> went
> to the "Port forwarding/port triggering page". UPnP was checked ON. The
> advertisement period was 30 minutes. I changed it to 10 minutes. After
> that
> I stayed connected. I setup one PC connected to one site through DXTelnet
> and another PC on the network running DXBase 2006 connected to another
> internet cluster site.
> I stayed connected on both PC's all day and night. This morning, about 5
> hours ago, both PC's got disconnected from their respective cluster sites.
> No one was here so no idea what happened.
>
> I reconnected both PC's. For the past 5 hours things seem fine. Maybe
> changing the time from 30 minute to 10 minutes had an impact? Maybe it
> should be a different time?
>
> I just checked the "Router Status" page. I went to the "Show statistics"
> page. The "System Up Time" shows 2 days 19 minutes. The "Connect Status"
> shows 5 hours 51 minutes. Not sure what happened with the "Connect
> Status".
> The time coincides with when I reconnected. So no idea what disconnected
> both internet clusters.
>
> Any more ideas? All input is welcomed.
> N2TK, Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]  On Behalf Of Greg
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:22 PM
> To: Tony Cash
> Cc: Dxbase (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase 2006 - staying connected to DSL
>
> my router has a idle time out  "net gear"
>
> i had problems after bridging my router with getting disconected i set
> the idle time out on my  router as high as i could set it !
>
> good luck N8TDL
>
>
>
>
>
> Tony Cash wrote:
>
>> Take your router out of line and try it for a while.
>> Very well could be your DSL connection. I have
>> friends on DSL and most all have problems staying
>> connected.
>>
>
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