Hey Dan,

Guess what !! My roter works absolutely fine now. :)

All I did was get rid of Windows VISTA. I was all the while trying to
configure this thing on VISTA. It shouldn't have been a problem, but I
dunno why.

I am back to good old Windows XP now. Tried all the tests you had
suggested. All worked fine and the tracert results were better than
before. In fact I am am sitting at least 40 feet from the router and
typing this message. and downloading my mails without any issues.

Anyways I want to thank all you guys (John, Mark and of course Dan)
for the help and advice. Really appreciate the time and effort you put
in to answer the queries.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Anand.





DanS wrote:
> keethyanandpr@gmail.com wrote in
> news:1174141112.376013.81980@l75g2000hse.googlegro ups.com:
>
> > On Mar 17, 3:53 am, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h....@a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a.n.e.t>
> > wrote:
> >> The procedure is....
> >>
> >> 1) Power everything down....modem, rtr, PC.
> >> 2) Turn on the modem.
> >> 3) AFTER the modem is sync'd up completely at the head end, then turn
> >> on the rtr.
> >> 4) After that has fully booted, now turn on the PC.
> >>
> >> If you do not power cycle the modem, it is still expecting the old
> >> device to be connected to it with a certain MAC address.- Hide quoted
> >> text -
> >
> > Hey Dan,
> >
> > It worked !!! Thanks a lot ! I followed the exact procedure and it
> > found the internet.
>
> I wasn't sure if you had done that or not so I just threw out the
> suggestion...you're welcome. I'm not sure if the necessary modem reboot
> is listed in the (any) rtr's manual, then again....who reads the manual,
> unless you're trying to find out how to 'reset to factory defaults' !! I
> know I got bit with that one when I added my first rtr years ago.
>
> >
> > But now I am facing another problem. :((. The access is very slow.
> > Initially I thought it was the ISP problem, because I was not getting
> > good speed when connected directly to the modem as well. However later
> > the speed was better, but if I used my router, it was very slow. I
> > tried pinging a few sites from command prompt and found significant
> > packet loss. I am attaching the results below.
>
> Time to find that CAT5 cable to connect by wire to the rtr and retest
> again to isolate where the problem may be. I assumed the numbers you
> posted were for the wireless connection.
>
> You can do ping tests again, but do tracert's also. For the ping tests
> with 2 & 3 below, do you have another wired IP device on the rtr ? I
> would test local destinations as well as internet destinations. If it an
> interference issue on wireless, that should be affected for local pings
> as well as pinging an internet host (this will help separate any possible
> internet issues from possible local issues).
>
> (As a note, if you add the /t switch to the ping command, it will ping
> continuously until you stop it with a CTRL-C. Not particularly helpful,
> but you can see if the results change over 30 seconds or a minute,
> compared to a 5 second 4 ping test.)
>
> Test-
>
> 1) PC to Modem directly
> 2) PC on wire to rtr
> 3) PC wireless to rtr
>
> If 1 & 2 are OK, it's a wireless issue.
> If 1 is OK and 2 & 3 are bad, a rtr issue.
>
> If all 3 are bad....drop back 10 and punt !!!!!!! But seriously, test 1
> should NEVER be bad. If it is, it's either ISP or some bizzare networking
> issue with the PC.