[wplug] Comcast cable modem woes, resolved

[Eric Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:45:54AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> I have a cable modem connected to a Debian router/firewall with 2 3Com
> Vortex NICs.  In the past month or so I've been experiencing annoying
> freezes, where there is 100% packet loss to the Comcast router for as
> much as a minute, after which traffic flows again.

I replaced my old Toshiba cable modem with a new Linksys one and
haven't experienced any problems yet.  I noticed that the new one has
a full-duplex 100 Mbps LAN link, while the old one was half-duplex 10
Mbps. My speedtest results seem to have improved by about 40%.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u