Well... I knew the day would come. After hammering my little LinkSys 4-port router for months with up to 300,000 hits from over 25,000 unique users every day, it finally fried. Fortunately I had a much newer D-Link router sitting on the shelf. Unfortunately it was there because after a few attempts over the last two years, I gave up trying to get even marginal service from the thing. Fortunately I called D-Link and got what I'd consider amazingly good customer service (and I'm not easy to please) that got everything working. Unfortunately everything didn't include my incoming traffic. My apologies.
I'm not sure if the router is misinterpreting the daily barrage as denial-of-service attacks, or maybe there's a setting that I missed, or maybe there's a real malfunction in the router, but I've found my incoming services (like this blog) seem to come and go. It would be better if it didn't work at all. At least it'd be consistent. Not sure what to do now but keep tweaking and buy yet another router if things don't settle down.
posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 12:20 AM