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Just got Gen5, new router is losing internet over and over again.
I spent hours troubleshooting my issue with tier 1 support today, useless scripted support. Finally at 10 till 5 she agreed to escalate it. Now I'm waiting for advanced support to call me back. So, he...
Hrm, you may want to look into using the Parental controls in the modem to limit things, along with Norton DNS... It's not that the DNS settings are being bypassed, it's that OpenDNS depends on knowing what IP you are behind... Sadly, we aren't given a publicly routable IPv4 address and things such as OpenDNS don't usually work well.
If you know a little bit about FreeBSD and the such... I would urge you to look into setting PFSense + Squid + SquidGuard up on your network as a local firewall/proxy. Some pretty powerful stuff once you get the hang of it.
Before you do that, try powering the modem off for a few minutes... When I changed from the default to the one I prefered, the Modem had serious issues, especially when I went to add in a static MAC entry... Pulling power at the wall for a little bit, and rebooting the rest of my network and it started to smooth out.
What do you have the lease time set to? I am going on a 1 hour lease, forgot what the default is.
Next time the network is up, check your IP on your computer and see what it says... When it goes back down, immediately check again and see if the address has suddnely changed..?
Ok, so I did ask you asked, it 'seems' to be stable now... I am getting these in the error logs:
Apr 4 23:33:00 (none) kern.err kernel: [ 5223.920000] ICMPv6 RA: ndisc_router_discovery() failed to add default route.
Apr 4 23:32:50 (none) user.warn [igmpproxy main] igmpproxy[1401]: [acceptV3GroupReport] Group Record [0]: Multicast Address=224.0.0.252
Any thoughts?
