To DC or not to DC? Et tu D-Link?

Well, my high-speed internet provider's technician was out today to try to determine why, after purchasing a new modem, I am still getting disconnected every 5 minutes. Well, as it turns out my apartment building was built back in the stone ages of technology. You know, the early 80's. As such, the cabling within the building is not exactly the perfect match for today's digital technologies. So after replacing every jack in the house, and redoing the junction between cable jacks in the attic... my signal strength improved, but I still disconnected... just not as frequently.

BUT... I think I've managed to narrow it down to the wireless router. When I run through the router, I disconnect that a long distance call that's run out of time. When I go direct from the PC to the modem... Internet Utopia is discovered. So now it looks like a brand new router is in my future.

Disconnection

I've been having internet connection problems here at the house for a while now. I keep disconnecting and reconnecting. At first we thought it was the modem, but after replacing it I'm still having issues. So the cable guys are coming out Thursday to check it out and we'll go from there. :(

I hope it gets fixed... cause this disconnecting every 5 minutes is murder on productivity!