[wplug] Comcast cable modem woes

Mark Allen Earnest mark at mystikos.org
Fri Jun 29 10:54:03 EDT 2007


Not this, but I have noticed that the FiOS fiber digging crews in my
neighborhood have been known to "accidentally" cut the Comcast
connection (yesterday for example). :(

Broadband competition is ratcheting up.

Mark

On 6/29/07, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> 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.
>
> Before I start swapping NICs and cable modems, has anyone else
> experienced this?
>
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