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.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Drew from Zhrodague</b> <<a href="mailto:drew@zhrodague.net">drew@zhrodague.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:45:54AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:<br>>> I have a cable modem connected to a Debian router/firewall with 2 3Com<br>>> Vortex NICs. In the past month or so I've been experiencing annoying
<br>>> freezes, where there is 100% packet loss to the Comcast router for as<br>>> much as a minute, after which traffic flows again.<br>><br>> I replaced my old Toshiba cable modem with a new Linksys one and
<br>> haven't experienced any problems yet. I noticed that the new one has<br>> a full-duplex 100 Mbps LAN link, while the old one was half-duplex 10<br>> Mbps. My speedtest results seem to have improved by about 40%.
<br><br> Did you just go and buy one? If you did, how did you go about<br>getting your account switched over to the new unit?<br><br> I've been tempted to do this, and I have a number of odd cable<br>modems here.
<br><br><br>--<br><br>Drew from Zhrodague <a href="http://www.WiFiMaps.com">http://www.WiFiMaps.com</a><br><a href="mailto:drew@zhrodague.net">drew@zhrodague.net</a> <a href="http://www.pghwireless.net">
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