oh i fogot to say that when i plug the connection in to a win98 box
and let it do it's thing it allways works fine
so i know its not in the wireing or in the connection.
I hope some one can hlep me with this
becouse i run 3 e-smith boxes on diffent @home connectiosn
and thay all have this problem
and at&t will NOT help any one trying to use linux letalone a roughter