I’m in Indiana (formerly GTE territory) and have had DSL with them for about 12 years now, through various incarnations. The current 768K service to my house is through a Fujitsu R14 modem, which I run to a Belkin router/wireless router, then to an 8 port switch. The router uses local DHCP and NAT. This works fine for many computers (for everything – web browsing, email, SSH, VPN, FTP, Ping, skype, etc). However, I now have a problem: I am trying to access a web hosting site for a domain I own, and I cannot get to it by http, ping, or ssh from either of my two home computers (XP Table on one, Fedora Linux Core 6 on the other). In all cases the connection times out. I can access it (HTTP and PING) from 4 other places on the internet – everywhere else that has been tried. The Hosting company claims there is no problem on their end. Traceroute from any location that works shows that the hops go to time out eventually, but that the last IP listed is the same (so the routes used join at that point) – seems it can’t be a verizon routing problem. Since the problem shows up on two different computers with two different OS, and every other IP works fine (except those on the same hosting server), I suspect the DSL service (or my modem and router). So far no luck with tech support at solving this issue (it is not a “lite” tech issue). BTW, the problem was not always present (last year this worked), but nothing has changed on my end since then. Rebooting computers and/or modem or router does not help. My DSL speed is fine, and has never varied much. Ping normally never drops any packets, either (to other IPs). The DNS has the URL decoded to correct IP for the problematic web sites, and I still get time out when pinging, SSH, or browsing to this specific numeric IP from my home. Normally both computers are wired to the router (cat 5) but the problem (again, just for this one IP address) also shows up with a wireless connection to the router. Also, the DSL connection seems to be DHCP, not PPPoE. Any ideas on what might be the cause?
Q2: I want to eliminate the belkin router from the soup, but when I connect my tablet PC directly to the modem with a straight thru cable, it struggles to get an IP, and eventually gets a public IP but no DNS or Gateway from the modem. This happens with resets before or while connected. Is this a result of not releasing the modem MAC lockout, and the fact that my computer and router have different MAC addresses? If so, if I power everything down overnight, then bring up the modem with nothing connected, then connect to my Tablet PC, will that work?
Thanks for any help.