Hi Carl
Let me move down the list a little--
When you say "I try to get in to the router" just exactly what are you
doing? And what are the symptoms of "it refuses the connection"?
When I go to 192.168.0.1 this comes up in a box:
"192.168.0.1" refused the connection.
The server may be busy or you may have a network connection problem. Try
again later.
There may be an old version of the page you wanted:
* in the Google Cache
* in the Internet Archive"
Then I have to click on Enter repeatedly (dozens of times) to finally get
through.
I did update to v3. The NETGEAR website was very clear about that. Plus,
I had the problem prior to doing that: I went to their website and did the
download because I was having this problem. So I don't think that is the
problem.
What you say about the router not knowing what kind of operating system I am
running makes sense. And since the connection works fine without the router
(cable modem > computer), and the WinXP computer does not have this problem,
doesn't that leave the problem somewhere in how my debian installation
connects to the router? Which, I think, goes back to my original thought of
trying to "re-establish" the network connection.
Part of the installation process is: "Configure the Network" and "Configure
the Network with DHCP". When I do that in a new installation, it goes
through very quickly and I continue on with the installation.
Once installed the system is installed it usually works fine. The problem
never comes up until I come across something, like Azureus, that tells me I
need to enable port forwarding. ("The problem nevers comes up", but then,
until then I had had no reasons to get into the router settings.) Once I do
that (and it always works fine), then it seems like I also have to do port
forwarding for POP and SMTP because they start having a problem connecting
(very slow to not connecting at all). In trying to set up POP and SMTP I
would quite often run into the "192.168.0.1" refused the connection."
message, but I could get through in a couple of tries and set up the port
forwarding. Again, once done, things would work fine.
I hope I'm explaining this well. I am not a computer guy, just someone who
likes Linux and hates windows. And I appreciate that you are taking the
time to help me.
Getting back to Wired vs. Wireless, I was at an installfest years ago when
one of the installers talked me out of going wireless. He said that, for
privacy/security reasons, if I owned my home and could wire it, I should go
wired. That made sense to me and I went ahead and wired the house. Is
security/privacy still an issue with wireless. I notice on the Wii, which
has built in wireless, I can "see" that some of my neighbors are wireless.
I can't get into their systems--I don't know enough and, of course, I don't
want to. But what if some knowedgeable kid in one of their homes wants to
get into my system, if I go wireless? Is that still a concern?
Again, thanks for your help.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lowenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Slow internet connection
On Feb 9, 2008 8:42 PM, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
The problem is somewhere in the router. Everything works fine when I go
directly from the cable modem to the computer, so I think I'm just going
to get a new router.
My current router is a NETGEAR RP614 v3. It has to be 4 or 5 years old.
I have always needed to go in and do portforwarding for things like
bittorrent and sometimes POP and SMTP. (I never have to do that with the
WinXP computer.)
I find that hard to believe, since the router doesn't know what kind
of operating system you are running. Resetting the DHCP connection is
an equally trivial operation on both Windows and Linux. But the exact
thing you have to do is different.
Now things seem to have gotten worse. When I try to
get in to the router it will refuse the connection 99% of the time.
When you say "I try to get in to the router" just exactly what are you
doing? And what are the symptoms of "it refuses the connection"?
I downloaded the latest update from NETGEAR and it did not help at all.
Sounds like time for a new router.
RP614v4 is the current model. I hope that you downloaded the firmware
for the RP614v3 that you have and not for any other model.
So now the question becomes, does anyone have a recommendation for a
router that works well with linux? This current router is wired--not
wireless. My house is wired and I'm fine with a wired router, but I am
not totally opposed to looking at wireless.
I don't think there have been any major changes in wired routers for
the past few years. All the new-model stuff seems to be adding higher
and higher speed wireless.
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:41 -0800, Neil Schneider wrote:
> phil wrote:
> > Is there a way to re-set-up the internet connection? When you
> > install a
> > new distro part of the installation process involves "setting up" the
> > connection through DHCP. I'm having problems only on my linux
> > computer
> > so the router and cable modem seem to work. I don't want to do a
> > re-install unless I have to. I'm running Debian 4.0r2 etch.
>
> Yes.
>
> To get better help, please give us more information.
>
> What is your problem?
>
> What are the symptoms of your problem?
>
> What have you read about your problem?
>
> What have you done to try to solve your problem?
>
> After you answer those questions, we might be able to give you a more
> informative response.
>
carl
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