I'm going to stop pretending like I know what I'm talking about - I've never done it.
I would google for the modem manual, myself.
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I'm going to stop pretending like I know what I'm talking about - I've never done it.
I would google for the modem manual, myself.
...duh. I think I have the modem manual. RTFM, smonster.
Okay, I RTFM and it's not helping. It only has troubleshooting for PC, not Macs. I think I'm going to contact my cable company. Thanks for the help, y'all.
You probably need to contact them anyways to get to the bottom of the problem. I doubt that your router is going to be problem if a wired link doesn't get you the speed you expect.
My home network has been connecting slowly to the internet for some time, in spite of reboots. To see if it was the router, I unplugged the router and plugged one computer directly into the cable modem. Speed was fine. I then plugged the router in again and connected through the router. Still working fine. "Fucking Ethernet, how does it work?" /insane clown posse.
Erratically.
A large portion of my day is spent telling people to unplug the "Telephone cable on steroids" from the back of the register and from the wall socket and plug it in again, both ends.
Of course this is often followed by, "no, not the power. Not the -- OK, we'll wait for it to come back up...."
Of course even if took care of the slowness, plugging and unplugging all cables did nothing about the tendency of my current router to reboot every few hours.
Erg.
Still haven't talked to customer service, but I think I'm going to go ahead and get a new router. My dad is a contractor for Cisco, so he gets a discount.
At the moment,the new router is my intention too.