[wplug] Comcast cable modem woes, resolved

[Drew from Zhrodague]

> 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%.

 	Did you just go and buy one? If you did, how did you go about 
getting your account switched over to the new unit?

 	I've been tempted to do this, and I have a number of odd cable 
modems here.


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