Matt,
First of all, thanks for reply to my message.
Yes, I did check the event viewer log which is
always full ever since SBC. Most of the complaints
I'm not sure if it helps though they're somewhat
related. The complaints are "service control manager,
RSVP, SNMP, even DHCPserver."
As for some of Window services like DHCP server, NAT,
routing and DNS. I turned them off when I got the
Linksys router and still don't know whether I should
use that or depend on the Linksys instead?
But most of all, I think the reason Windows and apps
take a long time to start is because it's doing something
with the modem like try to query something from there?
I thought the router is doing all the work and Windows
shouldn't even see the DSL modem at all. There's absolutely
nothing in my system to tell the OS there's an actual
physical device other than the router. Should I put
Enternet(?) or the modem driver back? Doesn't seem to
be problem getting into the Internet w/o that.
I come from Unix background, Solaris so Windows
is like speaking foreign language to me.
Thanks for all the help. If there's any piece of hardware
or software that would helps me, please recommend them as
well. I'm not really happy with being so dependent on this
stupid modem and the router doesn't help much actually.
Again, thanks guys.