tonight ive sat here trying to download 5 suse images and whenever i get close to the end (sometimes not even) i lose my internet connection. i check my ip and low and behold i get one of those bogus winblows ips' (169.x.x.x).

i gotta unplug my cable modem, power off my pc and put my thumbs in my keester for a few minutes. i then plug in my cable modem and wait for the go lights, reboot and im good to go.

i cant understand why this happens and im not calling cable to talk to their shotty "tech support" which is quite laughable.

anyone have this similar problem?? using win 2k for whatever help that may be.

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