i wanna to ask what different between modem model 8633 wit 8636 ?

ckboon..thanks for taking time write such a lengthy reply.
You can't take a joke, can you ? It was pun intended to say that the Belkin is too cold. IMHO, 6 CPU fans is a bit OTT.
Even on default Out-Of-Box Factory Default settings, your 7634 stills disconnect before 1 week ?

How do we check the SNR & Attenuation of the line on F5D7634 ?

This post has been edited by ronnie: Jul 7 2009, 01:51 PM

i can take a joke, but ur question seem like too seriously for me to answer in a joking manner. i am just acting as a consumer.

even on default out-of-the-box, off wireless, or what soever setting i tested, as long as the modem is connected using VCI PPOE-LLC it will get HANG within a day, not to say 1 week. in a 1 week i will get AT LEAST 7 disconnection or Hanging.

i dont remember what i did but after tweaking the settings, my modem/router stopped dc-ing. usually it will dc at least once overnight. but its been online nonstop since last night. over 14 hours without dc! now i dont even touch it cuz im scared it will mess up something.

the most i can go is 2 days..
try it for a week and see how it goes..

tweaking?? i ran through all the setting, i didn not find any setting to tweak on the connection. if u can run it for more than a week, do let us know, and it will be much pleasure for u to tell us wat u've done.

I also just changed to belkin and encounter the disconnection issue.
I think the issue caused by download activity such as bt. Too many connection are opened and spaming the router. It seems like the belkin firewall treat it as DOS attack hence disconnect the connection.
I m not sure it is related but the number of disconnection reduced as I limit number connections of my bt client.
I hope some1 here can help clarify and resolve this

Could be the router cannot handle too many half-open connections.

hmm...
seem like now the blame goes to bit torrent downloading

from what i know, when i used tmnet billion modem to download BT, i cant browse the net, and will get a lot of time up when i try to ping to tmnet dns. but once the torrent is off, everything goes back normally. But the modem wont get disconnected by itself although i left it on for a night for BT downloading. (tested with more than 3 units of billion modem and given me the same result)

other tmnet modem, such as zte, rigor... i dont face this issue.

once again, if tmnet modem can why not with billion if we wanna put the blame to tmnet for capping torrent

or r we going to blame tmnet next for capping the speed of torrent that cause our belkin modem to gone crazy?

Not blaming on bt, i think Belkin firewall is too strong. (compared to others).
Try off ur router firewall and give it a try.
serious, i also dissapointed with Belkin.

it's the modem itself

my connection to the net had be DMZed, meaning they had by pass all the yadayada firewall setting, in another words it is vulnerable to attack. and i did test to ping my WAN IP from another external source and i fail to see any ping time, meaning attacker cant trace my IP and they are not that intelligent enough to hack a PC if they fail to find the source!

i dont think their firewall is too strong if u wanna compare it with other units then only u will really understand what called strong firewall such as NXG, SECUI, nokia checkpoint and the list go on. their firewall is just a standard basic for home user need., thus it shouldn't be the cause as i had a belkin wireless router running 24-7 with firewall and i dont see such issue of disconnection with OEM modem.

I just wish we can resolve the dc issue...
dun wan to waste $$$

that's why this thread had been created!!

i just bought the unit to my office for my friend to test and his house. just at the office itself, it already get hang, no modem connected, just normal router LAN mode.

OMG! seem like either my model is having the problem, or is this a factory bug??

will update u guys again once he bring the unit back to his and use it.

ok, after over 24 hours of no dc, suddenly just now dc 10 times in a row. fack it. fack the RMA. i'll just buy linksys tomorrow.

this not longer a surprise for me.

hm... sound like the modem ram not enuf to fully utilize or leaking.

modem hang got a lot issue as i counter

so we are now looking for the root the problem, and belkin center themselves also dunno, then how we as consumer gonna getta know the full detail?

belkin should just admit that this model is faulty and offer a replace with a different model. however, there's no point in offering a replacement that's not guaranteed to work.

i got myself a dlink router modem 2 weeks ago and haven't faced any disconnects ever since.

the funniest explanation i ever heard from them is, it depend on ur location. some location face on problem but some have.
for me like, WTF, aint we in msia using the same ISP ???

wat it gonna do with location??

It has something to do with the dslam also. There was a period where streamyx adjusting something, and a lot of modems (not only belkin) started failing en masse. Surprisingly, streamyx's modem still worked, lol.

That was an incident a while ago, but dslam's do affect. But I do agree that Belkin seems to be more succeptible.

Cheers,
Kinson