Need some networking help

[fuzzum111]

Alright, so listen up kiddies, I am going to describe and document this problem we have been having for quite some time now with our internet.

Rather my internet and my brothers internet.

Browsing web pages is more or less fine. Pages load with no problems, with the occasional need to refresh becuase it will say "connection was reset"

Youtube more or less works. outside of youtube problems we really don't have problems there. However, other anime sites with video players, I get this odd problem over and over. Every 5 mins or so, the player will reset the video to 0:01 as if I refreshed the page and start playing from the start.

If I try to skip back to where it was roughly, it will fail to load and the page has to be refreshed to get back to where the video was, it is a constant annoying problem.

My instant messenger AIM keeps..resetting as well, it will sign out, saying connection lost, and then auto re sign back in. This is also a constant annoying problem.

Once in a while, when we(being my brother and myself) attempt to navigate to a page, it will go to the page, and add at the end of the url "login_access" or something to that effect and bring up the log in page to our new(and the old one when we still had it) router like we attempted to log in and change something. Mind you, for the period this is a problem, which is intermittent itself, no matter the webpage we try to go to, it will bring up that page to log into the router.

These are the things we have done to attempt to remedy the problem.

Replaced the downstairs wired router
Replaced my networking card on my computer
Tried new Ethernet cables
Reinstalled AIM
Futzed with my networking settings on the computer itself

At this point calling comcast would be the next step but I doubt they will help us. There as useful as a sack of dried up potatoes.

Any ideas NG? Seriously, any ideas at all I am at my wits end trying to fix this, and it's just getting more annoying as right now I am bored out of my skull, and can't watch anime becuase of the video player resetting.
Any fucking idea what to do?

[Conal]

Do you connect to some sort of domestic proxy or use a form of internet authentication in your browser?

[fuzzum111]

At 44 minutes ago, Conal wrote: Do you connect to some sort of domestic proxy or use a form of internet authentication in your browser?

Not that I know of I have everything set up to be default and normal.

[SevenSeize]

At 1 hour ago, fuzzum111 wrote: Alright, so listen up kiddies, I am going to describe and document this problem we have been having for quite some time now with our internet.

Rather my internet and my brothers internet.

Browsing web pages is more or less fine. Pages load with no problems, with the occasional need to refresh becuase it will say "connection was reset"

Youtube more or less works. outside of youtube problems we really don't have problems there. However, other anime sites with video players, I get this odd problem over and over. Every 5 mins or so, the player will reset the video to 0:01 as if I refreshed the page and start playing from the start.

If I try to skip back to where it was roughly, it will fail to load and the page has to be refreshed to get back to where the video was, it is a constant annoying problem.

My instant messenger AIM keeps..resetting as well, it will sign out, saying connection lost, and then auto re sign back in. This is also a constant annoying problem.

Once in a while, when we(being my brother and myself) attempt to navigate to a page, it will go to the page, and add at the end of the url "login_access" or something to that effect and bring up the log in page to our new(and the old one when we still had it) router like we attempted to log in and change something. Mind you, for the period this is a problem, which is intermittent itself, no matter the webpage we try to go to, it will bring up that page to log into the router.

These are the things we have done to attempt to remedy the problem.

Replaced the downstairs wired router
Replaced my networking card on my computer
Tried new Ethernet cables
Reinstalled AIM
Futzed with my networking settings on the computer itself

At this point calling comcast would be the next step but I doubt they will help us. There as useful as a sack of dried up potatoes.

Any ideas NG? Seriously, any ideas at all I am at my wits end trying to fix this, and it's just getting more annoying as right now I am bored out of my skull, and can't watch anime becuase of the video player resetting.
Any fucking idea what to do?

My aim was doing that constantly at my old house in addition to just random disconnects from the internet period, and I did end up having to call the cable company. I apologize because it has been literally years--2007ish-- so I cannot remember what they did, but they came out and they fixed it.

Since moving to my new house around 6 months ago, I have the same computer, same modem, same router etc etc and I have had no problems at all with disconnects.

Occasionally I have issues with youtube or other movies not loading correctly and I just check to make sure I've updated everything that I ignore down there at the bottom (flash, java, whatever) and I restart and it's fine.

Also, I use Opera for my browser, and occasionally it doesn't wanna do anything involving media, so I switch to firefox or IE and it's fine again.

I totally understand your frustration in calling the cable company. Ours is worthless too. But it's what we ended up doing. :-(

[fuzzum111]

Thanks for the reply! Well BTW both me and my brother are hard-wired to the router, so wireless connection shouldn't be a problem. Just an FYI for everyone else.

Yea I'll tell my dad to call the cable company and see if they will come out and see if something is wrong.