More MediaOne woes

[niall at kst.com (Niall Kavanagh)]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Abreau wrote:

> I just got mediaone installed on Saturday, and it's been a major pain in
> the ass since then. The connection keeps dropping out entirely, and I have
> to reset my NIC before it comes back. Even that doesn't work consistently.
> Sometimes when the problem occurs, I notice that my default route has
> somehow gotten reset to the address assigned to my NIC; I imagine their
> DHCP server must be doing something wierd. So far the longest I've been
> online with this thing is about 20 minutes or so.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced problems like this? Any ideas what might
> cause this? How did you resolve the problems?
> 

I've had Mediaone in Needham for a little over a year now, and this week
I've been seeing behaviour like you describe -- and it's the first time
I've seen it happen this consistantly.

Very annoying.

Are you losing block sync, or are you just losing your DHCP lease?

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