Quote Originally Posted by dswartz View Post
sounds defective, no?
That might be it.

It is maddening to deal with because there are less than 10 seconds to make changes each time before it blinks out and I get locked out of the interface until it reboots.

The only way to get it to hold is to switch back to dynamic, then take several chances on restarting, modem, router, ATA in such an order that the ATA likes. It never seems to be the same each time. That's been true since I got it.