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by darrynmarr1979

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Ive asked this in the network section, but im putting it here as well just in case im putting it in the wrong section!

my prob is this;

i have a voyager 205 modem with built in router, 2 ports, belkin router 4 ports, three computers all running windows xp pro, now the prob im having is probably to do with N.A.T, but im not sure yet, not being the expert the rest of you are lol. Im connecting the three computers thru the belkin router to the voyager modem to the internet to play games, access the internet blah blah etc. the prob is that im getting intermittent access on all three machines, sometimes its perfect, sometimes it stops for up to 4 mins then comes back on. can anyone help?
as much info as i can think of follows;

ICS is off
all three comps are above 1 gig processor speed,
cat 5 cables(cables checked out ok)
ran router setup disk on all three machines
cloned mac address for primary computer into the belkin router(just in case the modem needed it)
DHCP enabled(lease time for ip's is set to forever)
dns comes from the modem, thru router to the 3 computers
ping times to the router are all under 30ms
intermittent ping results to the modem thru the router(no idea why)
windows firewall turned off on all three(just in case again)
put each machine at a time into the dmz on the router(again just to figure out if was just 1 machine, not the other 2)
not using any application gateways
virtual servers routing external msn messenger calls to three machines
no client ip filter specified
no mac address filtering specified
no wan ping blocking
connection type set to dynamic

now if anyone can help me i will be sooooooooo thankful! its really starting to bug me that i cant fix this(by the way, would the keepalive setting in the registry have anything to do with this?)

from a really confused user of xp.

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by jaqui

if your isp allows for more than one system, you should reset the belkin routers mac to it's own, as the same mac address on two machines can cause problems.

the delay could be a bug working it's way around the internet, it hit me a couple of months ago, it cleared up on me on it's own.

by jaqui

yup, the cloned mac address makes the one system invisible.
this is not what I meant about a problem, you could get conflicts online being caused by the fact that there are two different ips for same mac addy, yet bothare distinctly 2 different network cards.

the full definition if a mac address is: HARDWARE ADDRESS
this is why every piece of hardware has a unique mac addy, not just nics

by darrynmarr1979

Just an update, I only cloned the mac address into the router recently to see if the problem would be fixed, I was having this problem before hand, plus in the DHCP client list on the router, it only shows TWO cpmputers connected to the router, not three, although all three have intermittent access

by darrynmarr1979

Just an update, I only cloned the mac address into the router recently to see if the problem would be fixed, I was having this problem before hand, plus in the DHCP client list on the router, it only shows TWO cpmputers connected to the router, not three, although all three have intermittent access

by sgt_shultz

you checked for malware? when it goes down can you ping your isp's dns servers? did it ever work right?

by darrynmarr1979

yea i can ping them direct, until the damn thing goes down lol. strange really, a router is designed to share a internet connection amongst more than 1 computer as well as other things, what strikes me as strange is the fact then when i connect to the router direct, the dhcp client list only shows two machines connected, even tho all three have intermittent access, tell u guys its freakin me out not bein able to solve this, for now ive connected the primary comp to the modem via usb and the others thru the router, but this isnt the setup i wanted, as i said, any help is greatly appreciated, thanx to u guys for tryin to help

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