Hi, I to am one of the suffers of the @home mess. It is causing me lots of undue stress. My specific problem is this: Anything that requires a persistant connection is being disconnected after a period of time (around 5 - 10 minutes). This includes ftp, chat sessions (instant messenger), and diablo 2. For example, if I am using ftp, I will log in and start a download (which will start will good speeds) and then there will be a long pause and then the program (I use gftp) reports that it's been disconnected and is will try to reconnect. It reconnects only to have the same thing happen again. Diablo 2 is similar -- I can join a game, but within 5 minutes I am disconnected. Most things are working(email, internet, etc), however, I have to select on some sites twice in order for it to load and large email attachments take longer than they should to upload/download.
My particular setup is that I have a linux box acting as the router and DNS server -- it is running Mandrake 8.0. I have 2 computers networked with it, one running win98 and the other Linux. The server box is running dhcp using dhcpxd. I am at a loss as to where to start looking for the problem. BTW -- AT&T support is wacked!!! Any help for a poor soul would be appreciated. Nasa
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