On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:04:33PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > For the past few weeks we've been experiencing our Internet connection > (Comcast) going away and returning. I got worse so I called their tech > support. The first tier decided that they could see the modem sometimes > but would lose it, too, and concluded that I needed a new modem. So this > morning I drove over to the Comcast store in Milwaukie and got a new > one. I plugged it in but the router would not see it.
I haven't used ComCan't for years, but recall occasionally having problems like you describe. That was back in the bad old days when the bandwidth was delivered by end-to-end by coax, with little filters pulling my signal off the common sewer of signals that was the main feed. The principal problem was that coax cable systems are designed to distribute TV channels, not bidirectional bits, and that the limited bandwidth coax is way oversubscribed. Perhaps by now they are using fiber distribution, converting to coax for block-level or house-level local distribution. If not, you can expect hot weather to affect the electronics on the pole, and high usage by neighbors to strain the oversubscription to the breaking point. When Verizon offered FIOS, I was outa there. So far, besides the escalating prices, I have been happy with the 15M/5M they offer, and 500 microsecond ping times to friends on the other side of Beaverton is kinda cool. Not sure what I would do with gigabit fiber from Google, besides using a lot more encryption and route masking to bypass their spying. That, BTW, is another reason I use an offsite server in Dallas, Texas for my websites and mail exchange. My traffic is merged with tens of thousands of other servers before it leaves that data center. Not impossible to untangle, but the snoops must do so for the whole feed, not nearly as easy as adding a tap at the ComCan't or Frontier switch. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
