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ucrdem

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19. Def modem/router.

Reply to UTUSN (Reply #18)

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 08:55 AM

Mar 2014

Didn't realize you had a two-piece arrangement but unless your ISP has some proprietary device they make you rent I'd replace both with a new wireless router/modem. Better security for one thing. You can get 'em cheap but from experience I'd spring for a $75 name-brand because the documentation is likely to be a little more comprehensible if you get my drift, and you want your router-modem setup to be as painless as possible!

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Continual "This page can't be displayed" errors. Corrupted? Need tune-up? or new laptop? [View all] UTUSN Mar 2014 OP

O.K., another (fresh) error message: "417 Rate limit exceeded for engine pages" UTUSN Mar 2014 #1

Win 7 has a pretty good network checker ucrdem Mar 2014 #2

Thanks, the router sounds like a possibility just because it's old. UTUSN Mar 2014 #3

Is it wired, wireless, or both? ucrdem Mar 2014 #4

Thanks, but I'm in over my head. Tried googling "windows network connection" UTUSN Mar 2014 #5

LOL. Yeah there's a numerical address you plug into your browser address bar ucrdem Mar 2014 #6

The network troubleshooters are in the control panel under troubleshooting: ucrdem Mar 2014 #17

Thanks, found it. Got "Troubleshooter couldn't identify the problem" - UTUSN Mar 2014 #18

Def modem/router. ucrdem Mar 2014 #19

Does it happen on your other computer as well? n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #7

I'm told by the primary users that it doesn't happen with that computer. However, my Kindle UTUSN Mar 2014 #8

Well, one common thing between those two is your router,. You also wrote jtuck004 Mar 2014 #9

"disconnect/reconnect" = the modem for my local internet/DSL provider. Thanks UTUSN Mar 2014 #10

Now it points back at the modem again. So in your setup do you jtuck004 Mar 2014 #11

Yes, the modem is from the provider and it has a yellow ethernet? wire connected from the router UTUSN Mar 2014 #12

I had to have the drop replaced last year, mine started doing nearly the same thing, jtuck004 Mar 2014 #13

Thanks really for all you've told me. "the drop" thanks for talking to me like an Equal (which I'm n UTUSN Mar 2014 #14

Drop - The line from the pole to the house that the cable internet service jtuck004 Mar 2014 #15

Really, thank you - good night n/t UTUSN Mar 2014 #16

*UPDATE* (if not necessarily "RESOLUTION") - I called my local provider (DSL) UTUSN Mar 2014 #20

I have something I want you to try... A lot of times what you describe can be attributed to poor and Drew Richards Mar 2014 #21

Thanks. I've been putting off continuing this thread so as not to bother people more, but UTUSN Mar 2014 #22

Message me ill walk you through it Drew Richards Mar 2014 #23