It's a cable modem, not DSL, and even if the computers can't see each other, which is most of the time, I can always get on the Internet.  This is the reason I've been mystified by what's going on.  All the settings must be correct because when it does work, it's fine.  I have replaced everything, cables, router, and bought my own cable modem.  That doesn't leave too many choices, especially if I can always get a good, fast Internet connection.  Kind of rules out the NIC's as being bad. It was suggested that I just go buy another router, but at $75 a clip, that's not really an option.  Another one may not work either.  What's left to try aside from dropping a C note on a different brand of router?

>After 6 months, it is still clicking along with no problems :-)
>
>You might want to see if the connection to the DSL is straight to a single
>PC.  Perhaps a software firewall with logging could tell you if you are
>connecting and disconnecting to the  DSL which would indicate an ISP
>problem.  I've had my cable system go intermittently bad when there was a
>loose coax connector near my home.  Maybe something similar can happen to
>DSL????
>



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