Constantly Line Drop/Modem restarts under load!!

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PetAT

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#173622 29-May-2015 22:08

I have been running a TD-W8960N_V3, Have been running it flawlessly since 2013, But since the last couple of months, the thing has been acting up, I am with telecom/spark which has never been a great service provider, specially the region I am in(semi rural). I think its the modem though, its dropping every few mins and sometimes connection remains while dropping under a lot of downloading load.

Any solutions or what would be a positive upgrade?

hio77

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#1314371 29-May-2015 22:39

Modems do die sometimes, if you think its the modem.... have you considered buying/borrowing/begging another modem to confirm that is the case?

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Aredwood

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#1314699 30-May-2015 16:45

Are you downloading torrents? As some cheap modems crash due to the NAT routing tables getting too big and causing some sort of buffer / stack overflow. Try updating the firmware.

PetAT

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#1314813 30-May-2015 19:36

I haven't been able to borrow another modem or try another one, I have tried updating the firmware but it didn't exactly help.

Usually after a reset I often keep getting this message "IP Address Conflict" Another computer has the same ip address as your one. I wonder if that causes this? I only a second computer also Running Windows 7.