Am not sure where to go for help/advice/knowledge. I am hoping some people can give some feedback/advice to my queries. We used to have a Vigor DrayTek , on a 4MBit line, and a Windows 2000 Server for web proxy, DHCP & firewall. Everything was fine (web surfing is fine, MSN is fine, Remote Desktop is fine, etc). Until our Windows 2000 Server died and we decided to try letting the router Vigor DrayTek to handle all the DHCP & web proxy. We started getting lots of MSN dropped connections, dropped Remote Desktop connections & slow internet. Every now and then we can't access the internet for a bit (probably due to saturation or bottlenecks). We got a new router Vigor (next model) hoping it would solve dropped connection issues. But it hasn't really. We still get dropped connections from time to time. What is the best/ideal config/setup for a router to prevent/stop these dropped connections for Remote Desktop & MSN? I mean, before when we were using Windows 2000 Server, we never got a drop connection from MSN or Remote Desktop. Now we get it constantly and it's annoying. Is there a Network Monitor tool to diagnose what's going on? On the router should there be a maximum sessions, bandwidth limit, etc?
On that router is there an option to set your own DHCP renewal? The renewal time may be screwed and it is trying to renew a lot quicker than it should.
