My internet/LAN is being an asshole

[GohanX]

I'm getting a little irritated, and I've tried everything I know how to do, so I could use a little help here. I've got a Roadrunner cable modem for as long as it has been available, and my current router is a D-Link DI-524 that has been hooked up for years. My desktop computer is wired, and evertything else is wireless.

Starting a month or so ago, I was starting to have some issues with the net being slow. The connection would just stop for a while, then resume and be fine. Eventually it deteriorated, until I couldn't access the internet at all. Technically I would be connected, and if I waited eventually a page might pop up, but for the most part it's useless. However, if take the router out of the setup and hook my PC directly to the modem it works fine. I tried a hard reset, and then a firmware update, and nothing. Well, I figure this router has been a good one for several years, I'll let it rest in peace.

I bought a new router, I hook everything up, and nothing. Maybe I did something wrong, so I reset the router and used the "Installation for Retards" CD that it came with, and still nothing. If I go into the router settings, it looks like it tries to connect to the cable modem, but it fails to establish a connection. It keeps trying, and trying, but nothing. I hook the PC directly back up, and it is golden.

Anyone have a clue here? Time Warner won't help since they insist it's a router issue and they don't help troubleshoot networking issues. They are sending me a new cable modem since I qualify for the "PowerBoost" upgrade. It doesn't appear to be a router issue since I've used two different routers with the same issue, and even swapped out the cables. The only other idea I have is when they fucked with the network a few weeks back it made it somehow incompatible with my old ass cable modem/router combo. Or, I'm a fucking noob who doesn't know how to set up his router (fucktard.)

[cka]

make sure all your settings for hooking it up to the cable connection are set properly (don't they use some sort of wacky dhcp system for connections?)

also I have a DI-524 too and you did the right thing by throwing it in the trash

[GohanX]

With my service, settings are generally easy-- you set everything to auto-detect.

[GohanX]

I got the new cable modem and set it up today. It seems to have fixed the problem, my wired computer can access the net just fine and the Wii could access the Shop Channel through wireless. I did some speed tests and Roadrunner's PowerBoost does increase the download speed a bit, but upload speed is pretty crappy.

[B-Ri]

mine has been doing this the past few days too, itll just stop for like 5 minutes then suddenly wake up again.

Maybe we really are running out of bandwidth?