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Hello all, I'd like to pick your brains regarding a dilemma I'm facing. I have a fairly straight forward home LAN: 4 machines connecting to the internet via a Belkin wifi router. 1 of the machines is a server with a number of name based virtual web servers and external requests to the server are delivered via port forwarding. This set up has worked fine as long as I've had it going, and in particular, when connected to the LAN I can access the websites on the server by their URL. However, when downloading large amounts of data over wifi, the router appears to block the machine and prevent it from accessing the network, forcing me to unplug/replug the router to reset it As far as I can tell, this is a fault and not a feature (there's nothing relating to it in the control panel). I'd like to swap it out for a different router that doesn't have the problem, but when I did that before (for a different model Belkin I had spare) I found I could no longer access the server via a URL. This is a problem since all the sites are name based virtual hosts. Googling around leads me to believe that this is the normal behaviour, and that my original router was an exception in the way it handled the URLs. So my dilemma is this: I can either have access to websites and keep crawling around under the desk to reset the router, or replace the router and lose local access to my websites. What I'd like to ask the list, is what possible solutions are there to my website access problem? Is there a way I can replace the router and still have the domain names to resolve to the correct machines whilst I'm on the LAN? Ideally the solution would be transparent, so without changing any settings my laptop would correctly connect to the server whether it is on the LAN or on a different network accessing it via the internet. Thanks for taking the time to read this, Chris -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq