It's probably almost time for Gus to call customer service. But Gus should probably first unplug and plug back in whatever modem he has. Then restart the router. Because customer service may ask him if he's done this. Oh, and maybe restart one of the computers too, to get it to refresh its network info (assuming the computers are getting their DNS info from DHCP).

It sounds like their DNS servers are frelled.

Yes, (tommyrot and Laura), separate hardware pieces.

That is, the RH8 and the Win2k box are discrete. The NAT is Belkin hard cable x 4.

The other two boxes on the LAN are Replays, (which are Linux 7).

Since it has all worked earlier, I'm going with an ISP change.

Yahweh, have mercy on my penitent soul.

(tommyrot, you are too funny, with the multiple "Gus" thing, for words)

Every couple of weeks I completely lose my internect connection and need to restart my cable modem. Sometimes the router too, so the changes can propegate.

Have I mentioned how much I love my wireless Apple keyboard and mouse? That's a rhetorical question; I know I have.

Every couple of weeks I completely lose my internect connection and need to restart my cable modem.

This started happening to me a year and a half or so ago, and kept getting progressively worse over the course of a couple of months. I eventually had to buy a new cable modem.

tommyrot - Feb 10, 2005

Daniel, do you still need the DSL "modem"? We've got three, so my boss is willing to give me one for free. He's gonna look up the model #, so we can see if it will actually work for your purpose....

Tommyrot, have you found out this info, yet? I've got about 2 weeks to take advantage of the Qwest pricing.

(Right Gandalf? March 9?)

I'd have to look on the pricing. But, we're doing a huge push to sign up DSL subs, so the next deal might be better. You never know . . . .

Has the Web gone nuts? Every second time I try to click a link, I get "(site) not found" back from the DNS.

Gus ... I've had that at times in the past and it was always a problem with the ISP of the time but it got fixed reasonably quickly.

re bouncing spam: I have (somewhere) a small program called BounceSpam which worked pretty convincingly. Only problem is, rarely do spammers use a legitimate return email address, so it's a pointless exercise. :(

re return of Pop-ups: I'm just thankful that more advertisers/spammers haven't cottoned onto using flash for generating pop-ups. So far I've only come across it once and Opera's usually-reliable pop-up blocker, had no way to stop it b/c it wasn't using javascript.

Phone virus found in the wild.

This is going to sound like the silliest question in the world, but my copy of The Sims 2 runs horribly on my (newish) laptop. Would this have anything to do with me running the game off of a dvd instead of a cd?

The next thing I'm going to try to do is see if I can find newer drivers for my video card. Where on my computer can I find my video and sound cards listed? Is googling generally the best way to find new drivers?