Hi Neighbor,

Does your method accomplish the same thing as rebooting the modem? I did
some reworking of my computer area and now have all my plugs and power
blocks switched so if I leave for more than an hour or go to bed I can turn
everything off with the flick of a couple of switches. It does allow
rebooting of the modem and router constantly so Charter can't claim that as
a fix. It also saves me about $10 a month on my PG&E bill!

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shkabara


I am using Charter and found that rather often (every several days) I need
to reset the broadband connection. To do so, I log onto my router and force
a disconnect and then reconnect. Usually I will get a new WAN IP address and
all seems fine after that. If a new IP is not generated and I still have
trouble, I can force a new WAN IP to be issued by changing the MAC address
of my router and then resetting the WAN connection.

Hope this is of some use to you. It does make my operations easier to deal
with.

Peter Shkabara

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