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[FurryNutz]

Kewl beans Stress. Hope it keeps working. Maybe we can Help out ol OpAck out. 

[Stress]

I'm trying to recreate OpAck's setup to see if I go back to being unstable.  I turned off QoS.  Guess what, now the globe light is blinking again.  What the heck?  I still have a solid internet connection though so far.  I'll let you know what happens.

[OpAck]

When I turned QoS off is when the globe started blinking.  Yet, I just switched back to my D-Link and just did yet another fresh restore and did not turn QoS off...and I've had a solid globe now.  I had one little blip where my connection got really slow, but other than that, I've been up and running.  I've now got my Boxee running...and I haven't seen any problems...yet.  I'm not holding my breath.

[Stress]

I encountered a dropped connection again with QoS off and the globe light blinking.  I turned QoS back to enabled and the globe light stays solid.  So far I'm ok again.  Why does QoS affect the globe light?  Somethin' ain't rite with this machine.

[OpAck]

Really weird!  At least that seems to be making a difference for you.  I did have another outage (with the globe solidly lit) before I went to bed last night.  Yet this time, my wired connection worked.  I know this because, over wireless, I couldn't even navigate to the D-Link configuration page.  Once I plugged in to an available port, I was able to surf the internet and navigate to the configuration page.  I'll give it a shot again today...but once it goes out, I'm going to make call #4 to CS.

[FurryNutz]

Since you two have the same router, Stress could save off his configuration to file and send it to OpACK and have him load it and see if there is any change. Stress would remove any PWs and such before saving the config to file. Might help.

[Stress]

I guess the solid globe light was a red herring.  I encountered a dropped internet connection this morning while in the solid light state. 

I give up for now.  I'm not a 100% sure that Road Runner doesn't have something to do with this.  I've called them three times and they say everything is ok with my connection and modem, but you never know for sure.  I might go back to my old wired-only router for awhile to see if it is more stable.  I don't really need wireless at the moment.  And like OpAck, I'm past the store return period, but still within warranty.

[FurryNutz]

Ok, that will help to determine if the ISP modem or the DLink router is the issue if you can connect a different router up. Let us know how it goes.

[Bocko57]

Good Evening All

I too have been having the same issue as the rest of you.  I eventually RMA my 1st (bought my first 1 in January 2011) one got my 2nd (April 23, 2011) one and still having the same issue.  I am using up to date FW: Hardware Version: B1 Firmware Version: 2.01NA.  One of you has been talking about LED lights.  My world LED has always been solid and I have never had any issues with any of the lights showing any problems.  I am using Road Runner.  When I by pass the DLINK router I don't have any issues and when I go back to my old router and I don't have any issues with that either. 

So I have performed several modifications from the tech support suggestions to my own thoughts and ways of  correcting the problem but nothing seems to work.  The issue is either a bad router, bad firmware or both.

[Stress]

My internet issues started while on firmware 2.00 after about 5 months of no issues.  The internet drops just started all of sudden with no changes to my router settings and no changes to the network devices.  This leads me to believe that it is not the firmware.

[Bocko57]

Added note...when I do a diagnostic of the problem, the message is DNS server CANNOT be found. 

More detail on the drops:  I can be on for 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours then when I go to click on a link or type in an URL it does NOT connect (this is when I run the diagnostics).  It states the the location cannot be found.  Then after about 3 to 7 minutes I am able click on the link or put in the URL and the site is launched.

After reading several great reviews and spending money to upgrade my old router, I would really like for this thing to work.  There has to be a reason why several of us are experiencing this problem.

Thanks
Bocko

[Stress]

Bocko57, do you also have Road Runner?

[Bocko57]

Yes.  I saw that you had it too.  Bad combination?  What road runner modem to you have?

[Stress]

Yes.  I saw that you had it too.  Bad combination?  What road runner modem to you have?

I'm not sure if it is a bad combination or not.  I just noticed that someone else on this thread had Road Runner, too.  My modem is a Motorola SB5100.

[FurryNutz]

Any one know of RR supports DOCSIS 3? Might check this out and if so, test a SB 6120 modem.