Router wierdness

Can anyone explain the following. My router is a netgear DG834 at the moment my profile is set low at 152k. Every so often at no particular time my routers logs show the following

Sun, 2007-03-25 10:03:56 - LCP down.
Sun, 2007-03-25 10:03:57 - Initialize LCP.
Sun, 2007-03-25 10:03:57 - LCP is allowed to come up.
Sun, 2007-03-25 10:04:03 - CHAP authentication success

During these periods I cannot navigate to any website. Now according to my router it is still connnected, my synch does not change nor anythingelse except my wan uptime resets. Stats are below, Is my router reconnecting?


Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 273 337 0 81 939 00:05:33
LAN 10M/100M 9482377 11610385 0 6911 7810 88:24:11

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2336 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 53 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 15 db 22 db

the LCP / CHAP stuff is your router negotiating a connection to the ISP. Is it set to "connect on demand" with a timeout ?

I used to get that a lot with Pipex - when I switched to Zen, it stopped.

According to my router basic settings the idle timeout in minutes is set to zero (If this value is zero (0), then the connection will be "kept alive" by re-connecting immediately whenever the connection is lost.) is this the reason for it and should I change it?

A value of zero on most routers means "infinity", or the function is disabled. In this case it means there is no timeout.