Attention tech-heads! (Or oy, such a headache I've got.)

[docwebster]

Okay, folks. Here's the deal:

As most of you know, this past weekend I got a Netgear router. Well, it didn't work out and I went back to plugging straight into my ethernet card. Since that time, my IP address resolutely refuses to resolve into any kind of a hostmask. Not in IRC, not FTP, not anything. Any ideas? See, when you switch from one computer to another, or router to ethernet card (or some such like that), Mediacom gives you a new IP. Help!

Comments

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Your problem may not be at your end, but with Netgear.

Netgear recently released fixes for several of its routers after the University of Wisconsin at Madison discovered that thousands of the company's units were flooding the university with time server requests. Such attacks are usually deliberately created by crackers, but in this case the blizzard of requests was created by Netgear routers all over the *world* asking, "What time is it?" thanks to a bug in the firmware.

This applies to models RP614, RP614v2, DG814, MR814 and HR314. If you have one of these routers, there's an updated firmware patch at http://find.pcworld.com/37961.

If that doesn't help, well, I guess we'll burn that bridge when we come to it. :)

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

That wasn't even the problem with the router. The problem was with the fact that when I used it, my download speeds absolutely plummeted. I was lucky to get 33.6 download speeds.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's busy pinging a university server repeatedly, then your connection speed is indeed going to suck... :)