Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-26 Thread DHSinclair
Scott, Thank you for this experiential report. It reads exactly what I have been experiencing since 03/08. I still believe that there is an external phone line problem (unprovable by me of course). But, yesterday, I went back through my router and noticed that somehow it was set for instead o

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-26 Thread Scott Sipe
Duncan, I can sympathize with you a lot! At my office (building is about 100 years old IIRC, and in an older part of town) a couple of the phone lines were absolute junk. For many years our DSL was spotty and would go down regularly (this was largely fixed by switching to Speakeasy as the

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-23 Thread DHSinclair
Ben and John, Thank you for the replies and gentle repeat of past education. I was really trying to eliminate my router, as much as possible, as a problem when I begin to fight my current xdsl provider. I think my service during wet weather stinks, but really have no way to prove it; other tha

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Ruset
As others have said, no, it does not matter what IP your router is - 1.253 or 1.1. Actually, you could give your router any IP address in the x.x.1.1-x.x.1.254 range and it would be perfectly valid. There's no efficiency or performance benefits to be gained by changing it. DHSinclair wrote:

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread John R Steinbruner
rs, servers etc, and start DHCP addressing for each site at x.x.x.51.. -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Hardware Group Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread DHSinclair
dware Group Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:17:17 PM Subject: [H] router/gateway address? Is there any efficiency in changing my router/gateway address from: x:x:1:253 to an address of: x:x:1:1 ?? Thanks, Duncan -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread John R Steinbruner
art DHCP addressing for each site at x.x.x.51.. -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Hardware Group Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread DHSinclair
ite at x.x.x.51.. -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hardware Group Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:17:17 PM Subject: [H] router/gatewa

Re: [H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread JRS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hardware Group Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:17:17 PM Subject: [H] router/gateway address? Is there any efficie

[H] router/gateway address?

2008-07-22 Thread DHSinclair
Is there any efficiency in changing my router/gateway address from: x:x:1:253 to an address of: x:x:1:1 ?? Thanks, Duncan