connection time outs

I've been having reoccuring problems with my Shaw@Home cable connection.

My connection is shared between 2 computers using ICS. My computer is the host. Anyways, at random times, my connection will feel like dying on me and is almost ALWAYS fixed when I turn off my modem for a couple of minutes, and plug it back in again to reset it.

As well, whenever my connection dies and I goto ipconfig, I regularly find that my ip address info for the host is always messed up and not the assigned information. By the way, I'm on win2k.

Anyways, I called up Shaw and they "claim" that they don't allow networking, which I know is all bull. I'm not sure what to look at. These problems just came up one day so I've got the slightest clue.

I have one theory, and it deals with one of my nics (the one connected to the modem). It's some D-Link nic that I got back in 1998 when I first got cable. It's old school; even has a coxial outlet. Anyways, maybe that could be the problem?? My computer is OCed but my PCI is only 32MHz, which is almost near spec.

Help!

Bonka said:

I've been having reoccuring problems with my Shaw@Home

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Need you say more haha... Just kidding i've had those problems too with shaw so I just got rid of it because it sucked...but I know some other people with Shaw and they had no problems at all.. So I dunno..?

Swap the nics in your machines. If you lose connection on the machine with the suspect nic but not the other.....ya get my drift?