Cable WAS better.
11/09/05 23:52 |Personal
Not quite sure what's going on now - I've heard
random reports that there's sunspots or something,
but really... Intermittently over the last 2 months,
my cable modem has decided to completely lose signal
with "the mothership" at Time Warner. As you can
imagine, that sucks. I've had the repair "dude" come
out twice to see if there's a problem with the line,
and both attempts have yielded craptacular results.
On the last visit, the "dude" suggested that if it
happened again to physically return the modem to TW
and request a replacement.
So I did that.
After driving clear across town into the middle of nowhere, I was given the "opportunity" to stand in line to replace the modem. Finally, I was given a new box, new power chord, and sent on my merry way.
Once hooked up at the ranch, I decide to run a speed test on the new box, since it seemed to be running slower than my old one. I was, no lie, getting around 4 mbps down and 348 kbps up on the old box. The new box gives me... wait for it... 348 kbps down and 300 kbps up. Lucky me.
I called tech support at TW (RoadRunner) who let me navigate their complex maze of pre-recorded mumbo-jumbo to finally talk with someone who suggested power-cycling the modem. Yeah - didn't think of that one. :\ So I humored her. Of course, it did no good. Then they did their little packet-shove thing they do when unplugged again, to no avail.
While typing this in (offline), I'm running another test, just for active numbers right now. Currently (this is time-stamped) I'm registering 158 kbps DOWN!?! and 166 kbps UP. I could put the data on floppies and walk it across town faster than I'm getting through my cable modem right now.
Anyone with clues? This actively sucks.
change me
So I did that.
After driving clear across town into the middle of nowhere, I was given the "opportunity" to stand in line to replace the modem. Finally, I was given a new box, new power chord, and sent on my merry way.
Once hooked up at the ranch, I decide to run a speed test on the new box, since it seemed to be running slower than my old one. I was, no lie, getting around 4 mbps down and 348 kbps up on the old box. The new box gives me... wait for it... 348 kbps down and 300 kbps up. Lucky me.
I called tech support at TW (RoadRunner) who let me navigate their complex maze of pre-recorded mumbo-jumbo to finally talk with someone who suggested power-cycling the modem. Yeah - didn't think of that one. :\ So I humored her. Of course, it did no good. Then they did their little packet-shove thing they do when unplugged again, to no avail.
While typing this in (offline), I'm running another test, just for active numbers right now. Currently (this is time-stamped) I'm registering 158 kbps DOWN!?! and 166 kbps UP. I could put the data on floppies and walk it across town faster than I'm getting through my cable modem right now.
Anyone with clues? This actively sucks.
change me
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