internet goes down for hours on end

[kotok]

Once in a while my internet will go down for a day or so at a time. It even goes down when i am not running any programs that use the internet. Yesterday when i got back from work aim, mozilla, and ie wouldn't connect to the internet. I know this may be a broad question but is there anywhere i should look in particular for this problem? Could the modem be tempermental? I recently changed my ip adress to static and yesterday I tried connecting my computer with out the router and it would not connect. So i think it may be the modem and not the router but i don't know if changing the the ip to static would have affected the modem.

thanks in advance.

 

[Xaqte]

What are you using... DSL, Cable, Dialup? What happens if you connect directly to the modem with dynamic ip address set up?

Let us know your results!

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[kotok]

I'm using cable. Yeah i guess i will try the dyamic ip. although i was hoping that could be ruled out.

thanks.

 

[Xaqte]

Let us know if the dynamic works.

although i was hoping that could be ruled out.

Why did you want to "rule this out"?

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[kotok]

It seemed like a pain at the time to set it to static. Yeah i guess i'll try the dynamic tonight. Also is it normal to not be able to access my router if the internet goes down?

 

[kotok]

switching back to dynamic solved the problem. Road runner uses dynamic so a static ip creates a lot of problems when the ip lease expires every day.