[Discuss] Shaw vs Linux.

[stephen hawkes]

I use shaw, I'm under ubuntu and haven't noticed anything (well, as of 
yet). I am behind a cheap wireless router/firewall (I have a nat'd 
private ip on this comp). Are you running a router, or are you using a 
switch/hub and grabbing multiple IPs from shaw (ie one for your comp and 
one for the wife's)? That may have nothing to do with it, but I am 
curious none the less.

Leamy Acoustic Art Inc. wrote:
> Hello Vlug.
>
> Never posted before but I am stumped. My name is Michael Leamy & I am a
> desktop user of Linux ... currently Mandriva 2006 Free ... and up until
> recently I have had no troubles. I am looking for advise on my network,
> which recently has become quite flaky, disconnecting after about five
> minutes for seemingly no reason. Oddly enough while torrenting various
> distros I noticed that the network remains quite functional, right up
> until the download is finished and I end the torrent. Enquiries with
> Shaw made me aware that my problem started right after they apparently
> did a firmware update to their modems, and I suspect if that's true then
> the problem is in there somewhere.
>
> First, has anyone else had trouble with Shaw that sounds similar, and if
> not would anyone be willing to offer a direction for me to Google? I
> realize that I haven't given much information, but so far I haven't got
> much to go on. Just so everyone knows I have tried resetting Mandriva's
> Shorewall to greater and lesser levels of paranoia, including wide open,
> all with no effect. As well, My wife's Windows machine hasn't been
> affected, which makes me suspect this might be quite deliberate.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> Michael Leamy.
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