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I have been having random network restarts at home. I didn't think much about it because at the same time I bought my new mbp, we moved into our new house. We had a telephone and cable technician come into our home to check four any line faults or wire grounding issues, but everything was great! We called att, which is our high speed internet provider, which provides 6mbps download and 700kbps upload. I have my macbook pro, an hp laptop, and an xbox 260 connected to it. My laptop is usually both wireless and hard wired to the router, which I forgot to mention is a 2WIRE wireless router and came from att. The xbox is always hard-wired. The hp is always wireless. The mbp is usually always connected to the router, both the xbox and hp get substantially less time on the network. However, the random network restarts can happen as much as 15 times a day, which seems to not be dependent on the xbox or hp to be connected for it to restart. When I called ATT, they told me that the router can restart whenever it thinks something is trying to enter it's network...or something along those lines. I'm sure there has to be someone else besides me who has att for their internet service. This is driving my BANANAS! I have online college exams that are done at home, if the network failed while taking one of those tests, I would bring out the sludge hammer and go to town on it!
Anyone have experience with this kind of problem. I read on other threads where turning off the firewall can solve some problems. If I turn off all the firewalls(mbp and hp) what kind of vulnerabilities am I opening up myself to? Thanks for any help in advance
Anyone have experience with this kind of problem. I read on other threads where turning off the firewall can solve some problems. If I turn off all the firewalls(mbp and hp) what kind of vulnerabilities am I opening up myself to? Thanks for any help in advance