airport extreme + actiontec dsl gateway modem + sbc/att dsl = continuous connection loss & and me F*&KING pissed off
Every 5 minutes for weeks during peak usage times (and sometimes late in the evening) our DSL would just drop its connection and fail to reconnect unless I did a reboot thru telnet or from the system log screen in the admin web interface. Pain in the ass. Finally read somewhere that sbc dsl is run by cock snots and the DNS servers use 2 addresses for all DNS across all geographic areas where they provide service. So sometimes this system can find itself overloaded and become non-responsive when a few million business and residential users want their porn and youtube at the same time. So I changed all of our DNS Server addresses to use the ones from opendns.
Problem fixed. Until I updated the firmware of the airport extreme. Back to the goddamn dropped connections all the mother****** time. Not only is it making my life harder, but I get yelled at by a certain lady when she can't read the paper and do her crossword puzzles online. So much worse than disappointed clients. Disappointed client stress is nothing compared to super pissed girlfriend.
Even though every machine and device in this house has been set to use DNS through opendns the airport extreme still looks for something with one of the addresses sent back to the client from our sbc dsl connection, and I have yet to find the elusive panel/setting that is ignoring the DNS I've set manually along with all of the other network settings.
I unchecked set time with apple time servers in the airport extreme base station and I'm hoping that will fix the problem. But the IP assigned to the airport extreme just had a failed dns look on one of the sbc DNS addresses. Sonofabitch. I have deep hate in my soul for all those gray beard bastards that made this shit so difficult.
airport extreme log: dns lookup failure ntp.apple.com actiontec gateway modem log: *dns lookup timeout 68.94.156.1 *(anywhere from 5 to 20 lines of this crap and then): actiontec modem gateway log: serial cable appears to be disconnected actiontec modem gateway log: dns lookup failure 68.94.156.1 - connection reset
Problem fixed. Until I updated the firmware of the airport extreme. Back to the goddamn dropped connections all the mother****** time. Not only is it making my life harder, but I get yelled at by a certain lady when she can't read the paper and do her crossword puzzles online. So much worse than disappointed clients. Disappointed client stress is nothing compared to super pissed girlfriend.
Even though every machine and device in this house has been set to use DNS through opendns the airport extreme still looks for something with one of the addresses sent back to the client from our sbc dsl connection, and I have yet to find the elusive panel/setting that is ignoring the DNS I've set manually along with all of the other network settings.
I unchecked set time with apple time servers in the airport extreme base station and I'm hoping that will fix the problem. But the IP assigned to the airport extreme just had a failed dns look on one of the sbc DNS addresses. Sonofabitch. I have deep hate in my soul for all those gray beard bastards that made this shit so difficult.
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