| Bill Jonas on Tue, 22 Jan 2002 04:50:13 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:54:19AM -0500, William Shank wrote: > Thanks for the response. My system goes down between 11am - 3pm on average, > but friday it was down until 2pm then again from about 3to5pm. It's very > annoying. Unfortunately, I'm not at home with the box when this occurs - i'm > trying to connect into it remotely, so I have no idea what the modem is > doing. But next time I'm home during that part of the day, i'm going to > check it. I've had some annoyances with my cable modem where the service will just stop for several minutes to longer. All the lights are in their normal display. Finally, I broke down and called tech support. The tech told me to unplug the power to the cable modem for about one minute and then plug it back in. That worked. Since then, I do that whenever I have an unexplained outage, and I believe it's worked every (or nearly every) time for me. It got to the point where I considered making a little powerbox with a push-button switch on it to cut the power for sixty seconds and then restore it. I've just come off a long stretch (couple of months, maybe?) where I didn't have that problem. A couple days ago, though, the problem resurfaced, but I haven't seen it since then. Cable has its advantages. In my experience, reliability is not one of them. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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