Network settings on NTL Set top box

I have an NTL Samsung set top box that has been working fine for many
months and it is connected to a router. This morning however I
discovered that my broadband connection had failed, so I tried all the
obvious things like rebooting the router and set top box but it did not
come back.

My next step was going through the hell of talking to the Indian call
centre, after an hour I gave up with that.

Anyway after a bit of fiddling with the router I discovered that the
STB no longer wants to talk at 100M full duplex instead I have had to
set the router to autosense. I am still getting a 100M connection
according to the port light but I am unsure at what duplex.

The strange thing is that nothing has changed and no settings in the
router have been modified for many months.

I wonder if I had one of the infamous STB firmware upgrades last night.

Ideas anyone?

Further to this post I have just found out that the box is only talking
at 10M/full

IDEAS AS REQUESTED:

1 NTL SAMSUNG - NO!! Buy Hauppauge Computer Works - do a google!
2 Get with PIPEX.COM broadband ASAP for the Real Deal!
3 Get a LINKSYS router as first choice and save money and hassle.

On 27 Sep 2005 11:48:09 -0700, "Baz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have an NTL Samsung set top box that has been working fine for many
>months and it is connected to a router. This morning however I
>discovered that my broadband connection had failed, so I tried all the
>obvious things like rebooting the router and set top box but it did not
>come back.
>
>My next step was going through the hell of talking to the Indian call
>centre, after an hour I gave up with that.
>
>Anyway after a bit of fiddling with the router I discovered that the
>STB no longer wants to talk at 100M full duplex instead I have had to
>set the router to autosense. I am still getting a 100M connection
>according to the port light but I am unsure at what duplex.
>
>The strange thing is that nothing has changed and no settings in the
>router have been modified for many months.
>
>I wonder if I had one of the infamous STB firmware upgrades last night.
>
>Ideas anyone?
DPSLO

On 27 Sep 2005 12:00:11 -0700, "Baz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Further to this post I have just found out that the box is only talking
>at 10M/full


As NTL don't supply connections above 3MB at the fastest a box talking
at 10M is fine.

This is true but I had my router set at a fixed WAN speed of 100M/Full
Duplex and obviously this change cause my broadband to fail. It appears
that all the menus on the cable channels have changed too.

Obviously I have now set the router to autobaud but I was just
wondering if anyone else had experienced this and what NTL's reasoning
was.