[nzlug] irc clients killing my internet connection

[Mark Foster]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brendon Toogood wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 21:53:50 SIMON WALKDEN wrote:
>> how are you connected to the internet - dialup, dsl via usb or
>> ethernet, or something else?
>>
>> is the connection dropped between your router and the world, or your
>> pc and the world?
>>
> dsl via ethernet, and the connection is dropped between the router and the
> world.
>

If you're certain of this, then it would seem to be a problem in the 
Router, not involving Linux per se.

See if you can borrow another (different type perhaps) DSL router and give 
it a shot?