Re: Can't share any applications, buttons are grayed out

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:20:00 -0400, Richard Fagen wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> Just another thought that might be a clue...
>
> Recent in our area (Montreal) the local ISPs started to upgrade their
> services by introducing new modems (dsl moved from 1.5M to 3-4M service
> and cable moved from 3 to 4-5M service). This has caused me a lot of
> nightmare with older routers. I've been in contract with SMC and
> Linksys and there are known issues with older routers and new modems.
>
> While they offered my newer beta firmware to fix things, after wasting a
> few more hours, I've given up wasting more time and found it more
> effective to simply get most people new routers. The main problem was
> the ISP now change their MTU setting from the default 1492 that was
> static for years. The new routers all have an 'auto mtu' setting.
> I've used the ping -l -f command to prove the ISP change this setting
> daily (sometimes even every few hours!)
>
> I believe I'm having most of these problems since we installed the new
> modems/router. I'm thinking .... can these problems all be hardware
> related?
>
> I also noticed that I never have problems connecting to cable clients.
> The problems only seem to happen with DSL clients. I am on cable.
>

It is possible I suppose that total lack of t.120 connection or sporadic
loss of connection (if that is what is happening) could be due to isp
setup/change of MTU ( though I haven't any real evidence or even anecdotal
information that this would happen).

The DSL provider is Bell Canada?




>I'm tempted to dust off my 3com modem and use dialup to see what happens :)


I suppose you could get some indication if the dsl connection is a factor
if you could use the same clients with a different connection.



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