cable modem disconnects

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everything runs ok but if i turn on the XP Firewall or Zonealarm or a
program like BitComet, the connection drops about every 10 minutes..If I
reset the modem it comes back on. Any ideas?
 
Your cable company could be monitoring your activity, I personal suffered a
lock down by mine during a VPN session. I was transferring 2 gigs worth of
back-up data back to a client when I lost the connection, everything was
good with my side of the network so I logged into my cable modem to find
that they had issue some sort of command and locked-down my Linksys Modem,
everything and been locked, all of my provisional rating were 0Kbs, it was
ten minutes before I got any connectivity back to the internet. I was told
by a Help Desk Support Technician that they block TCP 135-139 TCP 445 TCP
6667-6669, this was with my provider and your provider may very what they do
and don't block on their end, and what they do and don't monitor.
 
what settings do i change? i also should have stated that it is the
connection that disconnects, the modem lights stay on..
 
How are you connected to you cable modem? If your connected via your USB
port I've also experienced (with my clients) the issue of the Internet
connection just dropping off. It seems to me that networking connectivity is
too much for a USB port too handle, I should also note that this has all
happened to my clients using USB 1.1, I haven't seen any problems as of yet
for any interfacing through USB 2.0. But I'm waiting... I highly recommend
going through a network adapter if possible.
 
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