...duh. I think I have the modem manual. RTFM, smonster.
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smonster - Apr 06, 2012 6:17:12 am PDT #19822 of 25501
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
smonster - Apr 06, 2012 7:30:42 am PDT #19823 of 25501
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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.
Gudanov - Apr 06, 2012 9:19:12 am PDT #19824 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Typo Boy - Apr 06, 2012 11:24:29 am PDT #19825 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
DCJensen - Apr 06, 2012 8:45:36 pm PDT #19826 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
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...."
Typo Boy - Apr 06, 2012 10:01:35 pm PDT #19827 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2012 3:53:32 am PDT #19828 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Erg.
smonster - Apr 07, 2012 7:40:42 am PDT #19829 of 25501
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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.
Typo Boy - Apr 07, 2012 7:59:11 am PDT #19830 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
At the moment,the new router is my intention too.
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2012 11:35:52 am PDT #19831 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I think I'll post this in Press...
If any newer Mac OSX users (Leopard/10.5 and newer PPC and Intel) are curious if they may have the "flashback" malware that's claimed to be on 1% of Macs out there, they can download this checker:
Update your OSX to the latest patches for Java for your version (or use OSX update) to prevent this Java malware.
It mines CC info and passwords, so it's always a good idea to keep your patches up to date, whatever your OS.