Cable Modem/Wireless Router Dropping.

[jinxy]

AOL does not currently support home networking for cable broadband users. However we are working hard to make home networking available for cable users in 2004.

The above is from Aol

The only way i can see without doing some more research is to use ics. Connect pc a to internet and leave it connected. Then set pc b and c connect to a through a switch to connect to a and use ics to connect to the net.

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Just found some more info you may find interesting:

in the router config you put your username and password and as long as the router is switch on then connection to aol will be constant.only trouble you might have is aol do not allow multiple pc's on one connection(networking).
again in the router config you will have mac spoofing capabilities here you have to get the mac address from the main pc (start -run-cmd- type ipconfig/all the physical address is the mac address) add it in space provided, this should fool aol that there is only one pc connected

http://www.computing.net/networking/...rum/20544.html

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[Info Tech Geek]

I have found out it is not AOL, the problem happened twice and no one else was online. I had to reset the USR8022 and the Cable Modem twice in 5 minutes. Still talking suggestions, this happened with the only system online being a Win2K system using a belkin wireless card and communicating w/ a USR8022 Wireless Router.

[jinxy]

Ok so if your sure it's not aol that is the problem you have to look at hardware. I would start with the phone line, conntact your phone company and get them to run a line test.

Then remove the router from the network. Just use the modem connected to one box. Test to see at this point if you are still having problems. Look to see if there is a firmware update for the modem. Once you have a stable connection with one box add the router back into the system and test reliability again. If all is well start adding the other boxes one at a time checking reliability at each stage untill you either have the network working as it should be or you have isolated the problem.