New Airtel Broadband connection...

[Sushubh]

we restart the lan modems once in a couple of days when we sort of feel that the speeds are getting lower. but that is mostly psycological.

 

[blr_p]

Can you note if your IP address has changed when you restart the modem ?If it does then hoggers are being put into a slow(er) pool. But i'm thinking not. Since a reset is fairly quite quick meaning that your IP address would not have been grabbed by some one else. I am also assuming you are running an OS that can deal with such IP changes w.o requiring a reboot like 2K or XP.

 

[Sushubh]

well ofcourse IP changes. and i doubt if restarting will get u the same IP... and speed is constant on airtel. we have not noticed any drop down in speeds after restarting the modem at anytime.

 

[blr_p]

Was trying to figure out whether the slow down was coming from the LAN modem or because of "other" reasons If you get a new IP, then yes the speed should be as you expect. I have a friend in Oz that does this when he notices a slowdown, to get assigned to a less crowded pool.Getting the same IP back has happened to me when i was on a cable modem in the US. Does not happen every time but can happen. Sometimes i would lose the connection and was told to do a ipconfig /release folowd by ipconfig /renew. They did 24hr leases on the IP so had to do this in case of a hiccup.

 

[Sushubh]

well we restart just randomly... slowdown i said is just psycological...

 

[DevilSalil]

if i use the LAN modem, will it affect downloading or uploading from p2p apps. i dont have an extra USB port.

 

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[Sushubh]

i have already said we get fair enough speeds...

 

[coolbuddy_79]

getting the same IP on restart is pure luck and completely by chance...there's nothing to make sure that u get the same IP that u had before the restart...coz u get the IPs from a pool of IPs...if u get the same quite often, that means that all the IPs have already been taken from the pool and most of the ppl don't restart their modems...