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If the NIC card is a 3Com of fairly recent manufacture, and your motherboard supports "wake on lan", give it a shot. Worst that can happen is wol doesnt work.

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First, the motherboard and NIC both need to support WOL. IF they both do, normally there will be a separate small connector cable that runs from the card to the mobo, because until that switch flips, the mobo isn't listening to the NIC.

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http://www.wilcominc.com/adslcat.htm

These are the ones I use, the wall mounted (handy for 66/110 block installs) or the little yellow in-the-NID ones

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That is a common, and valid concern for people on Cable internet, as coax has a tendency to expand and contract inside the cable and at connectors with changes in temperature. But DSL runs over phone wires, simple solid-core one-pair phone wires. Unless the "slick" is cut or damaged, you shouldn't ...

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May sound like a silly question, but are you running FROM the 98se/ICS box to the WAN port on the router, or to one of the switched ports? Haven't tried what you are trying (shudder) but it might make a difference.

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Honestly, you are talking about a logistical nightmare with existing structures. One per building is a good rule.

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I think you are chasing your tail. If they are using PPPoE, you have to authenticate, period. Your DSL circuit is routed to AOL's router, which passes your auth to a radius of some type for authentication, which means no.

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Since aDSL is a hardwired solution, it should not be affected by weather conditions in the least, with the exceptions noted above (damaged cable, no dialtone, etc.) Even works during power outages. (my westell and linksys run off my UPS too

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DSL, the limitation of 18000 feet has to do with the length of wire a signal will travel at a given frequency.

aDSL actually works beyond 23000 feet, but no telco is going to install it past 18k, because of erroring with decreased signal strength.

Your theoretical speed doesn't decrease with ...

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Might want to check with AOL tech support, I seem to remember them blocking MSNZone at one point. They may be blocking those sites.

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Or if you can use anyones DNS feel free to use mine

ns1.ilnk.com 63.73.64.4
ns2.ilnk.com 63.73.64.5

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DON'T use Languard to scan random IP addresses or subnets outside your network.

Anyone running a half decent firewall will get a report of you attempting to connect to every common port on their machine, including your IP address and what you scanned them with.

This can be and IS an intrusion ...

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I use languard from my office to scan our high speed users (DSL and T-1 customers) to be able to help them secure their systems. Also like to know who is running p2p software so they can be dealt with.

Actually from my perspective, I really like it, but it can be easily misused by those in the ...

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YOSC, My suggestion was to see if there was an issue just with the Linksys-Client connection, as he seems to be losing connection with it (the comment about not being able to reach 192.168.1.1)

Pharkas, definitely update your firmware to at least 1.43 from Linksys. I have not done the 1.44 patch ...

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Glad you got it resolved. Yes and no to the heat question, depending on the configuration of the layout of the machine, if it was anywhere near the processor or battery compartment, it may well get quite warm.

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Assuming you only have one machine inside the router, I would recommend you try setting a static IP on the machine. If you have left the router at the default addressing scheme of 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 then you would set your IP configuration on your TCP/IP adapter bound to your NIC as:

IP ...

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I'll have to check out that Epson. Looking for a good photo printer.

Unless you want a color laser to do it for you, you just sold yourself an Epson printer with the above line.

I sold computers retail for a few years before this job, and can tell you that as far as reliability, COST PER PAGE ...

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Call Linksys tech support, had the same problem with a customer's equipment when plugged directly into the network here at the office. They troubleshot me to the point where they said it was a bad wireless card and actually gave me an RMA to return it to them.

Cust bought a new wireless card, and ...

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If you need old firmwares, go directly to ftp.linksys.com they are all there.

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Digitaljedi, for your info, the Alcatel Speed Touch Pro is a bridge, not a router.

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Dang it, wish I'd seen this sooner. As I read, I kept thinking IRQ. Good job easter egging the modem and figuring it out. Make the rest of the goofs a lot of us did, and you got a future in IT

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There are two methods for filtering aDSL lines. Individual filters on each piece of equipment or actually splitting the signal.

If you place a filter on each phone in the house, you will keep the DSL signal from reaching the phone itself and interfereing with the phone's quality of service.

If ...

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Contact your ISP, they should be able to loop you and see what the signal strength is.

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aDSL - Asymmetrical - not the same speed up-down

sDSL - Symmetrical - Same speed up-down

iDSL - Incremental, usually accomplished by adding or subtracting channels to a circuit that is transpoerted on a channelized T-1 (24 64K channels, with 23 usable for voice or Network traffic)

While s and i ...

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Thats why you set the permissions on the OS. Take a look at the article cyberskye. My 20 win2k boxes have logged over 4 million crack attempts in 13 months since I upgraded from NT4, and 0 successful. Removing everyone from global access is one of the key factors.

I'm not saying it can't be cracked ...

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Patching IIS is not enough. Make sure you follow the directions in my signature exactly as stated in the Tech bulletin from Microsoft. Fixint the permissions when setting up an IIS server is vital to secure operation.

Don't get me wrong, I love IIS and its operation, flexibility and SECURITY when ...

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Faust, speaking as a small local ISP, I'd say try looking for a local small ISP in the area.

Might be the same on your end of the connection, but where they point you for internet access makes a huge difference in the quality of service and level of support.

I pick up an average of 5 BellSouth ...

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Don't reinstall, you will still get an IP from the same range as the one you have now as long as you use the same ISP.

Only way around an ISP block is changing ISPs

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Don't bother. If you only have access to a fire hose's worth of bandwidth, no sense installing a water main size pipe to carry the flow. Wont improve anything and will cost you a bundle in fiber/ethernet translation gear.

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kure, bdillon, you even try my suggestion before dismissing it?

it works ;)

regardless of whether the ends of the connection are statically or dynamically assigned. For the session in question, it wont be changing - ever heard of a lease?

Just because you can't understand something, that doesn ...

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Woot!

Congratulations! Glad I was off base on this one, and you got lucky with that bridge tap. Iv'e had several issues here in Jacksonville where Bellsouth knew of a bridge tap impeding service to my customer, but refused to remove it, even after verifying that no one was being serviced by the tap ...

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"Ditch your router and use Wingate"

Hehe, BDillon, I thought your posts might be thinly veiled humor, but you removed all doubt with that statement.

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"Reading from his previous posts he has his router set to use DHCP. Static routing will not work in his case."

I run DHCP inside my home network behind a linksys with reservation lease times set to about 7 days. The static routing I described is the only way to connect the machines in question ...

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Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Lan Settings (bottom of the page)

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Olorin, Is your friend using the same ISP as you? If so, you may need to place a static route in your router in order to be able to do file transfer across AIM.

Go to the static routing page of your router, and create a route to his IP address, with a subnet of 255.255.255.255. The first time you ...

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Second would be to find out what ports your camera is broadcasting on. Might surprise you to find out how many ports you will have to open.

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Voice operates in the first 4k of the bandwidth on your phone line. DSL and alarms operate in the remaining bandwidth available on the copper pair. Because alarms operate in the same segment of bandwidth as the DSL signal, yes, they can and will severely impact the performance of a DSL circuit ...

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Also, AOL and MSN cache aggresively. It doesn't surprise me your speed measured to them is uber, as you aren't actually traversing the internet to get to 123xyz.com, as they have cached those pages locally on their network.

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You'll have to find out from the webcam manufacturer what ports need to be open for the cam to be able to be browsed from the outside world. I have seen cameras that required 6 different ports to be open. Check with the manufacturer.

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Yep. I would never accuse one of my installers (including myself) of NOT making a mistake. Good lord, I can bungle with the best of them. Might want to have them call their ISP's support line.

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Good point Cruelson