I did finally try the cable. I switched the cable from the pc to the mac and the problem continued, it moved it back to the pc and the pc was still fine. The mac does connect, it just drops after so much idle time. I've heard the saying "but it worked yesterday and nothing changed" a great...
I had my Mac and a PC both hard wired into an older linksys router and everything worked fine. I recently got VOIP and a new linksys WRT54GP2A-AT router that supports VOIP. I connected both the PC and Mac to the new router and both connected to the internet. However after a short time the...