C Hamel wrote:
I wonder about the YOU,
So do I! ;-) It's the only thing that I can think of that may have caused the problem. The machine in question is a laptop that's just a glorified router and firewall for my WLAN - I don't mess with it, it just gets turned on and off for the most part. The connection was always solid as a rock before the update. I let YOU update itself, powered the PC down and went to bed .. when I turned the PC on the next day, the connection started dropping and it's been doing it ever since. It *could* be a coincidence, but I wouldn't bet on it.
breaking really fast).
Hmm .. strange that we're seeing the same symptoms though. Who's your ISP? I'm with BT in the UK.
The behaviour I have described (above) is very erratic. Last Thursday/Friday I was having real troubles; since the weekend, the modem has gone down once ...and I did that purposefully.
Same here .. at the weekend the machine was on for 16 hours a day with no problems at all. Yesterday evening, it went down after an hour. I'm baffled by it .. it's as if a kernel module dies or something. rchotplug shutdown fails to stop the modem .. trying to rmmod the driver just sets the CPU to 100% but the module doesn't unload. Luckily, it doesn't happen so often that it's REALLY annoying, just mildy irritating ;-)