Thank you all for your comments & suggestions. I just finished putting in the IPCop firewall. Things have been running stable for a couple of hours. Curious to see how well the IPCop machine will hold up...
Jesse, is a powercleaner the same as a good surge protector? Same as a lowly UPS? Here's some further details re. the comments: = my own D-link firewall router is on a UPS and has been running 24x7 for over a year; = the firmware was up to the latest revision: 1.43; = the dying ones _did_ get warm but not alarmingly so; = the measured outlet voltages were 125V and 130V this morning. No detectable differences in neutral / ground; = I have a Linksys firewall router (WRT54GC) sitting in the spare bin, came out of an installation where wireless was unusable (too many steel studs). Also, way too many problems with wireless NICs driver installation (WMP54GS). After that, Linksys for me ... er ... no thanks. BTW, if anyone's interested in the bundle of 2 - Linksys wireless NICs (WMP54GS) and one Linksys firewall router (WRT54GC), make me an offer. These have been in use for about 3 weeks. Hopefully, there'll be more good news next week. Anyway thank you all for your comments and ideas. Much appreciated. Hendrik Schaink Jesse Kline wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:40 -0700, Hendrik Schaink wrote: > >>My preliminary diagnosis options: (1) power bump/surge; (2) static >>electricity discharge through the network cabling; (3) phone line >>voltage spike(?). > > > I'd have to agree with the people who don't like D-link. Of course I > don't like Linksys either. Hopefully the ipcop box will work well. If it > is a power issue, I'd recommend getting a power cleaner. I had a > computer that would fry every time I plugged it in, and a power cleaner > did the trick. You can also get a unit with ethernet surge protection if > the problem is your DSL line. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
