🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2010-12-30 21:14:25 -0800, Robin Halligan said:

> I have a weird problem on my network at home
> 
> I have 2 computers on the network
> 1 win 7
> 1 win xp
> and a D-link dsl 504T modem/router
> 
> when the internet is up and running, i can connect (and so can my wife) to
> browser and surf, read mail/news groups and windows live the wife can fire
> up wow and vent and we can still browse ect.
> 
> as soon as i fire up wow the router seems to die though the wife can still
> play and vent but we cannot establish any new connections and to fix it we
> need to shut down my puter and the router and reboot, it looks to me as if
> wow has done this but this has only happened in the last week
> 
> I have checked with my isp and they have checked and say my connection
> looks good.
> 
> this is strange has anyone heard of anything like this?
> 
> Robin Halligan aka Queeble Taurn shammy (Dath'rama)

Going out on a limb here, I would say that the the router has developed 
a problem with, um, routing. It would show up as okay to your ISP, but 
it is bogging down when you demand too much of it. It is at least four 
or five years old, is it not? Might be time for a replacement.

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