DHCP woes and cable weirdness

[kandrathe]

I have to suffer constant strangeness from my Cable broadband provider and I used to have a machine dedicated as a Proxy Server. But, the strangeness all went away when I installed a simple Linksys Router to isolate my internal network. The router can be configured to access Shaw's DHCP server to retrieve its network configuration, and provide a consistent topology for your internal network. I have mine as fixed IP addresses, but you could also use the router as an internal DHCP server.