[wplug] Comcast cable modem woes, resolved

[Jason Freshwater]

Getting your account switched over to a new cable modem, involves calling
customer service to get the new cable modem mac address put onto your
account so it can be activated.

On 7/10/07, Drew from Zhrodague <drew at zhrodague.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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>
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> drew at zhrodague.net              http://www.pghwireless.net
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>
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Jason Freshwater
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